Word: steers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...institution in fierce academic competition with all the others. The result is to encourage a flood of multiple applications from youngsters who cannot be sure which campus considers them suitable. Though high school guidance is improving, the pressure is rising so fast that even . the most fastidious counselor must steer youngsters to more and more colleges, hoping to get them in somewhere. In turn, colleges grow less sure of which students will accept them: many a small college begins the annual mating season with a deluge of applications, and winds up short of freshmen...
...American Ambassador Lodge-in two weak statements defending free speech and free observation flights anywhere-tried to steer the Council toward the aggressive threats and actions of Russia. He did not make telling points. In sum, Soviet Russia appears to have found some legality, not only to embarrass the United States, but to stress to the United Nations that if international law is to be rewrit ten here, the U.N.. too, could fade out ingloriously...