Word: sellout
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...stake, really -- oh, a few individual records maybe, but not the Ivy title, which had slipped from Harvard's grasp weeks ago. But in a game that will be remembered for years to come, the Harvard and Yale football teams put on an offensive fireworks display that kept the sellout crowd on the edge of their seats for 60 minutes...
...sellout crowd of 41,500--as if they hadn't been spoiled enough by the 68-degree weather--saw a first half show unparalled in excitement in recent years' action...
Justly irate feminists in Manchester picketed the Star's launch-night reception breakfast and altered some of the paper's promotional posters to read A STAR is PORN. Their protest did not prevent a sellout. Earlier, the Star had hurdled another obstacle: a demand by the Communist Morning Star for a court order barring the new paper from sowing confusion among the laboring classes by appropriating its stellar name. The judge lost no time denying the motion. Said he, quite accurately: "Only a moron in a hurry would be misled...
...Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza have denounced 'the Camp David accords as a sellout; Jordan's King Hussein has resisted all efforts to bring him into the peace process. In a recent secret meeting with a leading Israeli official, TIME has learned, Hussein again refused to join the negotiations. He complained that the Israelis had not left him any options that would make it possible for him to participate. Offering to give "all the guarantees you need that the West Bank will never become a Palestine Liberation Organization state," the King pleaded with the Israelis...
...more importantly, this was the first instance since the founding of the People's Republic that any nation has been allowed to maintain relations simultaneously with the governments of "both" Chinas. The implications for the United States, currently grappling with this dilemma, are significant for those who fear a "sellout" of Taiwan...