Word: standing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster's tackle football squad saved its undefeated status yesterday, fighting Lowell to a 6-6 stand-still, despite weak passing and a mediocre offense...
...promises have frequently been limited to protestations of faithful service to his supporters and the city at large, and, thus, if he has won election by hammering upon a controversial issue such as opposition to the belt route, he is likely to find few in the Council who will stand with him to push it through. For a well-oiled political machine must have followers as well as leaders, and nine politicians each leading in his own direction seems at best an inefficient operation. Plan E, the Cambridge form of government, has faced opposition of professional politicians from its very...
...Plan E alliance has given Cambridge some of the best local government in the state. But in the never-ending pursuit of progress, the CCA may occasionally forget that many of its programs stand to impose upon people values and ways of life they would prefer to reject, an imposition that could have serious consequences...
...squad the Crimson must face Saturday displayed an unexpectedly fine passing attack and a tremendous defense in holding the heavily favored Middies to a stand-off. A group of 1,900 Midshipmen, in Philadelphia for Penn's Junior Weekend and the Navy's first free period of the fall, staggered off to the post-game fraternity parties in a daze...
...length of the running battle (nine days) and the amount of ammunition needed. Another unpredictable-factor was the newly designed British ships, smaller and faster than the traditional men-of-war; with them, the British hoped to abandon the old tactics of close fighting and grappling, instead intended to stand off and demolish the Spanish ships with long guns. This plan did not work; gunnery was so imprecise that no captain knew whether a given culverin would dismast his enemy, drop its ball a quarter-mile short, or explode and wreck his own ship...