Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter was a complaint from an organization of Harvard-Radcliffe Chicanos about a publicity poster to a Harvard mixer. Somehow from a "Brother Chico" poster stemmed allegations of sophisticated institutional racism and a hemophilic knee-jerk bleeding taking us all the way to the concerns of the Third World...
...strength has always been its ability to find oil. The company was started in 1909 by William Knox D'Arcy, an adventurer who somehow had wangled a concession to explore in Iran. The British government bought a 51% stake in BP in 1914 because Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wanted a secure source of oil for the navy. Known originally as Anglo-Persian, the company was renamed British Petroleum several years after the government of Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized its Iranian concessions...
...year are taxed at an average rate of 63%, which makes the inflation hurt more. Fairly typical is Esther Mizrachi, 38, a Jerusalem housewife, who says, "If we can pay for our food and our children's education, we'll feel lucky." Yet the Israelis manage somehow; they overdraw on checking accounts to meet food bills, artfully dodge a tax law here and there. Though a Volkswagen Beetle costs $8,000 (excise taxes nearly triple the price of all cars), the number of private autos has nearly doubled since...
Albert was replaced in the opening bout by Jim Kaller. Battling against a poor opponent, the Crimson matman led, 9-8, with only three ticks left on the clock but somehow managed to get taken down at the buzzer for a 10-9 loss...
...goalie concentrated on Hozack, the senior center sent the disc across the goal mouth to Garrity, a freshman, who somehow controlled it on the other side of the crease and tipped it past a not-yet-turned-around Laycock...