Word: sachem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thirds full, and the Senators chatted amiably and joked with one another as they filtered onto the floor last week. Yet if the mood seemed light and frivolous, the vote was decidedly not: for the fourth time in one week, Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina and sachem of the New Right, failed to end a liberal filibuster against his measure to allow organized prayer in public schools. With that defeat, his much vaunted agenda of social issues, ranging from banning abortions to prohibiting busing to imposing the death penalty, crumbled for the year. "This was a final rejection...
Harvard tallied five tries and dominated throughout the game on the way to a 32-0 rout of the Big Green team of students and alumni in Saturday morning's rain at Sachem Field. In an attempt to insure victory, at least four Dartmouth graduates substituted for regular starters with less experience. Leading scorer Charlie Bott said, "Their plan backfired. They were talented individually, but did not play well as a team. When they fell behind, they fell apart...
...movement has also produced a variant sect of soft-core survivalists. They share the more moderate belief, long held by Mormons, that it is only prudent to have a year's store of food on hand in case of pestilence or famine. Their grand sachem is Howard Ruff, 49, devout Mormon, professional pessimist and author of How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years (2.5 minion copies sold). Ruff is the economic evangelist behind Ruff Hou$e, a half-hour syndicated television show that preaches to 2 million viewers every week the benefits of investing in hard goods, gold...