Word: redeeming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard defense, one of the only sore spots in Saturday's romp over Columbia, is anxious to redeem itself after its two-game shutout streak was unceremoniously broken. "I wasn't that upset about our performance," captain and fullback Rick Scott said yesterday. "We made some stupid mistakes, but we have the potential for some more shutouts," he added...
...trust in which any community is supposed to operate. The Faculty lost this trust by foisting the CRR on an unwilling student body. Only by completely abolishing this instrument of repression and working with students at all stages in the implementation of a new disciplinary procedure can the Faculty redeem itself...
None of the various sequences in the film relates to the others. Cole at one point visits an old man named Stan. Pinsent admitted that the principal reason for writing the visit into the film was to show Cole in a compassionate light, and to redeem him for his earlier nastiness. Stan, played by Will Geer, is also meant to demonstrate the continuity of the roughneck tradition in Newfoundland--in his youth he was supposed to have been a real hell-raiser. But he only comes across as pathetic...
...Olympied. Harry Parker remembered. He had been there, Livingston. Hobbs. Livingston. They remembered too. They had been a part of the 1968 disgrace. To them the memory of coming in an embarassing sixth behind the East Germans was all too vivid. Munich was their second shot to redeem themselves. Munich was possibly their last shot...
...article "Proportions of War" [May 1 ], you describe Viet Nam as having "long since reached the point that no future-win, lose or stalemate-can redeem the present " I agree. As for America, no future will redeem its past, but we can hope that the future is what the present ought...