Word: successes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet life in Washington, normally limiting their entertaining to small dinner parties at their 140-year-old farmhouse in nearby Arlington. He drives a five-year-old Volkswagen. His avocations are painting and sculpture. He has done bas-reliefs for some of his friends, and tried-without success -to put some life into the dismal school of official portraiture that fills the corridors of his courthouse. Judge Burger is also something of a gourmet. He sometimes runs his wife out of the kitchen in order to experiment with an elaborate recipe a la Julia Child, and he is a connoisseur...
...bent on destroying society, and on fomenting a revolution. In previous generations they were the Wobbles, later there were the campus communists. The reason why the present brand of campus revolutionaries, who are of anarchist and nihilist persuasion, are so much more dangerous is that they can point to success after success of their disrupting tactics. The greatest danger, then, is presently the readiness with which violence is afterward excused, and the seemingly convincing arguments which are bought forth to justify it before and after the act. Worst and most dangerous of all, there seems to be a tendency...
...before coming to Harvard, and this winter competed at number four and number six on the best collegiate team in the nation. Some of the explanation has to be natural ability and the excellent coaching of Corey Wynn and Jack Barnaby. But probably the main reason for his squash success is determination, trite as it may seem. Ince really works at trying to improve. One of his teammates said that he didn't really have great finesse or a soft touch, but that he more than made up for it by running all over the court and returning almost every...
Reddening but unruffled, Romney continued: "There is nothing more vulnerable than entrenched success. The demand for reform is growing. People are already talking about compulsory arbitration in the building trades...
...direction of Emile Godfrey, captured most of the other titles, but as Sherman said, "After we won the basketball, we were pretty sure no one could stop us." It is reported that Sherman "goes wild dragging kids out there," and this probably accounts for most of his dorm's success. Grays, last year's champion, dropped to eighth, traditional jock-dorm Holworthy fell to tenth, and little Lionel owned the cellar in final points totals...