Word: role
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green firmly established themselves in their familiar role of team-to-beat with an awesome 24-8 win over Holy Cross. The game was billed as a toss-up, but the Indians left nothing to chance, building a 24-0 lead before letting the Crusaders onto the scoreboard in the final quarter...
...former ambassador to India called the immediate cessation of all hostilities against North Vietnam the "Obvious first step" in ending the conflict If the United States, now thought of as opposing the nationalist spirit that "has imbedded itself in our opponents," assumed a defensive role in Vietnam, the war could eventually be brought to a close, Galbraith said
Song of the Grasshopper was a fable that pitted the steady workers of this world against a charming drone. Naturally the drone wins. Alfred Drake played the role in his customary vagabond troubadour style, sans songs. Grasshopper was adapted from the Spanish, and the original play may just possibly have possessed something more dramatic than tedium recollected in tranquillity...
...Durant, whose original role was researcher, became full-fledged co-author beginning with Volume...
Bobby's courtship of youth is both transparent and distasteful, as far as Shannon is concerned. "Although the young are very important, their political opinions are the least important thing about them." Yet Bobby's capacity "for exaggerating and romanticizing youth's role" is so great that sometimes "it is hard to say whether Kennedy is seeking the presidency or the leadership of a new Children's Crusade...