Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Please pay close attention to "we were anxious to compensate for the fifteen years." You were so sure you could do it that you did not even bother to insert "attempt to compensate." Moreover, fifteen years is a tremendous overstatement. It, too, reflects that inflated opinion of yourself...
...coach Moriarity settled back to watch his sure victory, and two thousand screeming sons of Eli were set to enjoy the same. Then Brooks pulled another surprise. Up to the block stepped junior backstroker John Pringle. Pringle had just finished winning the 200-yard backstroke and had not swum the breaststroke all season. But he was one of Harvard's superstars and the crowd tensed...
...sign on one of the freshman dorms in the Yard read "RFK for President--McCarthy for Sec. of State." Silly as it was, it indicated a number of things. First, most of the students who are against the war and have hitherto supported McCarthy will now flock to the sure winner, the only man who can get us out of the mess. Second, it showed that we have come to realize how important the office of Secretary of State is, that it dwarfs the Vice-presidency. And third, it revealed a naivete about what things will be like once Bobby...
Unexpected verged on inexplicable as hot teams suddenly turned frigid, or sure losers suddenly won. How to explain, for example, the Canadiens' 21 games with only one loss-followed by three losses and a tie? Who could have predicted that the Bruins would win six out of seven with All-Star Defenseman Bobby Orr sidelined? And how about the Rangers, those longtime patsies? Last week they had a Stanley Cup play-off berth all sewed up, and were within striking distance of winning the N.H.L. championship-for the first time in 26 years...
...sure who was manipulating whom. "Every Negro American," writes James Baldwin, "risks having the gates of paranoia close on him." They closed on everyone at Shaw. Shaw Negroes felt agonizing doubts as to whether the affronts they were attributing to us were real or imaginary. I began to feel the same doubts...