Word: spate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...likelihood of our being surprised this year by an unusually large spate of applications is small," Glimp said...
Hurdle Ahead. Not the least of the losers in the show of intransigence are the newspaper readers of the city. When all the other members of the Publishers Association shut down in sympathy with the Times, New York was left with only the afternoon Post and a spate of third-rate, strike-born tabloids, all inconsequential. Nor do the local radio and TV stations, which have hired some 40 striking Guildsmen, seem equal to taking up the slack...
...said his name was Roger, was hooked on the magazines. Once disarmament died out, a brief spate of articles on "A Generation Without Committment" was followed by what Roger describes as "the highlight of my own Harvard career"--the Great Harvard Sex Scandal...
...included in the book is Wolfe's most widely discussed article-a cruel, 11,000-word evisceration of The New Yorker. That piece set literary jowls aquiver from Morningside Heights to Greenwich Village, and threw New Yorker staffers into a spate of semi-public wig flippings that are still going on-notably in a bitter rebuttal that Writer Dwight Macdonald is preparing for the biweekly New York Review of Books...
...Engine. When the current spate of campus debates and special missions for the President ends, Bundy is determined to retreat from public view. But he is sure to surface again, for his shop is a kind of crisis center, and there has been no shortage of crises in the past 4½ years-from Laos, Cuba and Berlin under Kennedy, to Panama, Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic under Johnson...