Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York, which bore the brunt of 1965's Northeast blackout, was spared when automatic relays opened to cut it off from the interconnection. That stroke-and the fact that it was a bright, clear day-saved the area from the near catastrophe that engulfed it on the night of Nov. 9, 1965, when 30 million people, over 80,000 sq. mi., spent up to twelve frantic hours in the dark...
...stroke of luck, the most successful audit (in terms of proposals accepted) was the first and most highly-publicized one, the Government Department audit. That audit combined hard-working subcommittee members with a cooperative department chairman, and the spill-over from that success has set the tone for the whole program. "It acted as a catalyst for other departments," Riesman has noted; he feels that it helps a reform-minded Faculty member to be able to say authoritatively that "the students want this." Chalmers too thinks that the audits have been the HPC's most valuable contribution. "They make people...
...Stunned." He might have gone on to graceful retirement. By an apparent stroke of luck, a man of the same name had in fact graduated from Prague University in 1943 and then had obligingly disappeared. But in a country where papers, records, stamps and signatures are of surpassing importance, Günther's eventual exposure was perhaps not so surprising. It was the initial lie about his age that tripped him up. Shuffling old and new papers, a minor West Berlin bureaucrat noticed the seven year discrepancy in ages; after that, the tissue of Günther...
When Augustine quit Carthage for Rome to pursue his career as a teacher of rhetoric, he took along his mistress Lucilla and their young son and left his pious mother at the church. Mother had been hoping for his conversion to Christianity. It was a sharp stroke in the struggle between sensual and spiritual forces within the young African intellectual. Still, the flesh had won only a battle-it lost...
Harvard settled to a 36 after its start, but was not out of the race by any means, for Penn never really settled its stroke at all. At the 1000 meter mark, Penn was up at 39. Harvard, back by four seats and stroking a smooth 34, was moving closer...