Word: pro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attended The Game with the expectation that it would be somewhat different from the pro games in that there would be cheerleading and singing. The Yales, stimulated by their feminine contingent, got out and did the expected, but the Harvards just used their megaphones as hobby horses...
...House Appropriations Committee and the Armed Services Committees of both houses plan hearings. The Saigon government issued a statement that My Lai amounted to "a normal act of war"?the pro forma response of a loyal ally and a government that does not want to add fuel to the considerable anti-Americanism of its population. But two committees of the South Vietnamese Senate have challenged the government and announced a joint investigation of their...
...months ago by two 23 year olds, David Obst, who has the title of general manager, and Michael Morrow, its only fulltime staff writer. Obst acknowledges that the service has a left-of-center tone, but he adds: "This is not an antiwar news service, but rather a pro-truth news service." The son of a Los Angeles advertising man, Obst marketed the Hersh story with chip-off-the-old-block hustle. He sat down with a copy of Literary Market Place, which carries the phone numbers of newspaper editors, and started making calls. The approach, Hersh jokingly told...
...really waited their turn. I did some light reading and struck up a conversation with the man who had been warming up. He told me how he missed his blood appointment that morning and had skipped lunch "to get this over with." He said he was an old pro at giving blood, and had once given two pints within three weeks. After he described in detail his career as a Harvard administrator. I felt we had talked long enough: I decided it was my turn...
...ORGANIZATIONS I've mentioned here have some things in common. They're all pro -things: pro-peace, pro-life, pro-love. They share the assumptions that there is already far too much division in this society, and that people must be brought together for really important reasons...