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Dwight D. Miller, associate director of admissions, told alumni there is no "magic word" to help in recruiting Native Americans and inner-city minorities, but that others have had success with "persistent, rifleshot personal contact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alumni Urged to Recruit Minorities | 11/8/1975 | See Source »

...commentators" he had labeled "ideological antagonists" the night before. Among those who pressed him on that point were Michigan's William Milliken, Delaware's Russell Peterson and New Jersey's William Cahill, who urged Agnew to abandon his "shotgun" attacks and adopt a more precisely targeted "rifleshot" approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Spiro Agnew on the Defensive | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...Belle became famous. The Confederates under Jackson and Ewell were advancing on Front Royal. The Federals were planning to retreat to Winchester, after burning their stores. They were scattered in seven small groups. Belle was in the Strickland Hotel in the morning when she heard the first Confederate rifleshot. As she rushed upstairs she met a newspaper reporter coming down. This was a Mr. A. W. Clarke, of the New York Herald, who had been trying for some time to do what is described in books like this as "force his attentions upon her." "Great Heavens!" cried he, "what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Southern Belle | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...least fiery member of the Committee is Senator Brookhart, its Chairman, a bucolic rifleshot, with an evangelistic temperament. Senator Wheeler of Montana, colleague of Senator Walsh, prime mover of the oil investigation, is the active prosecutor. Wheeler is young, radical, a hard fighter, a smiling fighter, somewhat inclined, nevertheless, to lose his head. Strangely enough, he has the accent of Massachusetts, his native State. For comrades, Brookhart and Wheeler have the tart Moses from New Hampshire; Jones of Washington, normally placid and a bit heavy, but roaring, desk-pounding when aroused; Ashurst from Arizona, with a substantial "bazoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Daugherty's Inquisitors | 3/17/1924 | See Source »

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