Word: supporting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Club a host of hungry athletes sit down to a regular training-table lunch. They are men whose sports are "in season"--that is, baseball-players in the spring, swimmers in the winter, football-men in the fall (these last get both lunch and dinner), and so forth. Financial support for this rather elaborate eating program comes from the funds appropriated by the Administration to the Athletic Department. The total expenditure may run well over $10,000 a year...
...training meal immediately before an athletic contest, however, is a horse of another color, and this should clearly be retained. But so long as the University pays lip service to the ideal of mixing people with diverse backgrounds and interests, its continued support of the daily training-table will seem very strange indeed...
...Radcliffe Magazine was revived very briefly in 1927, but folded at the end of the year largely because of lack of student support...
...into the Caracas house of Rear Admiral Wolfgang Larrazabal, leading presidential candidate and (until he started campaigning) head of the ruling junta. Half an hour later, smiling from ear to ear. Machado came out with a document. On it was Larrazábal's signature, officially accepting the support of the Communist Party in the Dec. 7 election...
...hapless Jacobo Arbenz. In taking Red help, Larrazábal insisted that he is not one of them. "I am not a Communist," he wrote in his acceptance letter. "On the contrary, I am a Catholic of unbreakable faith and a liberal democrat. My acceptance of Communist support does not signify any commitment, present or future." But by running up a big vote, the Reds hope that 1) lesser Communist candidates will ride into office on the red ballot, 2) Larrazábal will take Communists into his government. 3) he will be forever in their debt...