Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confederation that united his mainland nation of Tanganyika with the tiny, troublesome offshore island state of Zanzibar. At the time, Zanzibar had just gone through a far-left coup against the ruling Arab minority. African Leader Abeid Karume had been installed as President, and his regime seemed about to slide under Peking domination. The union forestalled that, and Karume reluctantly agreed to serve under Nyerere as a mere Vice President of the newly formed nation known as Tanzania. Last week, as Nyerere paid his first state visit to the territories he had hoped to assimilate, it must have struck...
Much of the current discussion rests on two inconsistent assumptions. (1)Entering students are more mature and better prepared than they used to be (I agree.) (2). Once here they will slide through gut distribution courses, unless confronted with a fairly rigid core of general education requirements. (I don't believe...
...nets. Harvard fans who were at Watson Wednesday will always cringe when they see Wade leave the goal to knock aside a pass, though. In his maiden attempt to emulate Jacques Plante, Welch skated 25 feet out, but missed the puck and could only watch it slowly slide into the net behind...
Northeastern made it 2-0 at 15:21 of the second period, with Harvard's Bob Clark sitting out a dubious delay-of-the-game penalty. Paul Bloh picked up a loose puck in front of the Crimson net, and had all the time in the world to slide it past goalie Wade Welch...
Four of the eleven U.S. Government shipyards are on the list. McNamara's choices were based on a slide-rule cost-performance analysis that indicated that, "in summary, Philadelphia stands out as the single best shipyard to retain under all factors evaluated, while Portsmouth and New York [Brooklyn] rate lowest as the shipyards rating retention." Next to Philadelphia, the analysis showed that Boston ranked as "most desirable to retain because of its proximity to the North Atlantic sailing routes and to ships home-ported in the area; and because [its elimination] produces the smallest savings...