Word: supportiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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King, the only black candidate, cut into White's traditional minority and liberal support, carrying the black wards that have traditionally gone to the mayor and picking up votes in White's home turf, the liberal Back Bay. In November, these votes are apt to return to White's camp...
...like Rochester's usually don't participate directly in fund-raising--that's left to local class agents of the Harvard College Fund. But more often than not, an alumnus who wants to stay in touch with his classmates also feels close enough to the College to want to support it financially...
Shlomchik noted that Moses was "exceptionally resistant" from the start. "He was afraid we would fail and then his name would be associated with it," Shlomchik said, theorizing that if Moses had "the guts to support us," he might have prevented SHS's downfall...
These are the people who built Harvard sailing. As Horn said, "We have had excellent support from the alumni. They built the building, they bought the boats...They did everything...
...event of immense significance, one without parallel, outshining even that most memorable 11th of July 1976 when her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II addressed the city from the balcony of her royal ancestors' Province House. (Her Majesty's visit is cited as a precedent by various advocates of public support for the papal visit on the ground that the Queen is the Head of the Church of England, but it should be remembered that she is neither its Primate nor did she celebrate an Office of the Church of England at anyone else's expense while she was here...