Word: procession
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, both parties will be seeking new foundations on which to enlarge their strength. They will have a common target among the young. Both parties must seek to reclaim the Deep South and to win back the disenchanted on the right and left elsewhere as well. In the process, the Republicans and Democrats might find some of the social remedies that both major candidates promised when they repeatedly pledged themselves to lead the nation and re-store national unity...
...record-setting win to lead his team to an overwhelming victory in yesterday's Heptagonal Championships. The bearded redhead became the first harrier in league history to cop individual honors in two consecutive Heps meets, shaving twelve seconds of the two-year-old meet record in the process...
...Shank! As part of a series of articles for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, Plimpton set out to play in three tournaments against such golfing greats as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. What happens to him in the process shouldn't happen to a golf ball. His nerve synapses collapse at the thought of the next day's match. His mind invents a nightmarish fantasy in which a team of inept Japanese admirals, located somewhere in his brain, shout useless instructions through the imaginary voice tubes of his creaking body machinery in an effort to help him hit the ball correctly...
...rough, in a way. Only in a way, because you weren't really aware of it. You and everyone else around you were thoroughly immersed in the process; you were feeding on it; you could never quite pull yourself out and conceptualize what after all was bigger than you. Only when it was too late, when you were 16 or 17 or 18, when your mind was becoming aware of itself, did you begin to realize that men were faster runners, louder speakers, and more credible human beings, and that it was They ("They" being not so much...
...there is more to women's conservatism than biology. Hegelians could find a rewarding case study of a dialectical process in women's identity crises. If people are known by their actions, women (thesis), whose lives for the most part are not showcases for decisive action, are unknowable. The opinion-makers fill the gap with preconception and stereotype (antithesis), and the idea takes on a life of its own as women struggle to accommodate it. They may be warped (synthesis) in the attempt to reconcile potential with the roles assigned, but then a perfect circle is formed, and curves...