Word: processes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour earlier, the freshman team handily whipped the Dartmouth freshmen, 60 to 26, breaking five Harvard freshman records and one University record in the process...
Because of a breakdown in Trinity's electrical scoring device, touches had to be determined by chalk marks, a long and laborious process. In an attempt to expedite proceedings, three touches instead of the usual five were worth a point...
Even this successful Bicker can hardly be called a smooth, non-disruptive process. Until the bids are out and until most people have decided which club they are going to join, there is little sleep, little relaxation, and--throughout the period--no thought of academic matters. And, in this as in any Bicker, the sad spectacle of those "in trouble"--without bids, or with bids to clubs lower on the hierarchy than those their friends have received--existed...
...Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development," said Khrushchev. The transition "in which socialism develops into Communism is a regular historical process that cannot be arbitrarily violated or avoided." And instead of getting there first, as Mao had hinted China would, "Socialist countries, correctly using the opportunity of cooperation and mutual aid," said Khrushchev, "will more or less simultaneously reach the highest phase of Communist society." This would take "many years"; to try to leap there prematurely "would lead to the dissipation of accumulated means," necessary for expanding production...
Bourguiba has become, in many senses, a prisoner of his Algerian guests. He has allowed them to establish supply depots, training camps, mutual-aid societies everywhere, and in the process the Algerians have infiltrated every branch of Tunisian administration. Bourguiba sees himself as a mediator between the French and the Algerians, but finds no takers. Says harassed Habib Bourguiba of his own land, with more truth than immodesty: "A stray bullet may kill me and the country would be plunged into anarchy...