Word: supportive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Penn fans were out in full strength and the cheerleaders kept up a constant barrage of yelling to support the Quakers. But the entire complexion of the game changed with three Harvard goals in five minutes of the second period...
Hayes will need support both from East Cambridge and from Brattle Street to win. In the Proportional Representation (PR) system under which Cambridge operates, however, this may be a difficult combination to muster, for above all Hayes needs number one votes, the rest don't mean much...
...from Francis Duchay, a professor at the Ed School and a School Committee member, and several other liberal candidates whose ideas are close to Hayes'. The trouble with the PR system is that it forces all candidates to run city-wide and pits similar candidates against each other for support. Hayes never attacks Duchay or any of the other candidates, rather he tries to concentrate specifically on selling his own program...
This is precisely the point, and Professor Rotberg has- I fear-unwittingly lent powerful support to a grave charge that has often been directed against American interest in anti-colonial movements in Africa and elsewhere. Critics of American State Department "anti-colonialism" have argued that this policy was dictated primarily by the need to eject the old European colonial Powers from Africa and Asia. That having accomplished this task with the debacle and dissolution of the old Empires, the United States took fright at what it discerned as a "power vacuum" which it feared might be filled by indigenous revolutionary...
...CFIA does not merely support critical and radical scholars insofar as they exist on the Harvard faculty. The CFIA has a flexibility which the Harvard Departments lack; it can bring to the Center, for a year or two of full-time research, a scholar whose own university gives him insufficient research support and to whom the Harvard Department cannot give a position...