Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty's classic tendency to cast suspicion on immoderate change contributed to its reluctance to move quickly on the merger. Co-residency struck some as an alarming and sudden breach with the past. Peterson and his fellow faculty members, he explains, "philosophically resisted these great shifts in tide...
...choosing the party leader. Constitutional changes were necessary, the Benn forces argued, in order to make the party more accountable to the rank and file. Callaghan and his fellow moderates denounced the plan as a power play that might wreck the party, but they could not stem the leftist tide...
...saga of signalcallers in '79 is a familiar story to Harvard football fans: a tale that has turned the tide in the last two Harvard games, handing the Crimson two straight non-League losses...
...with a cheer the demonstrators leave their huddle on the edge of the marsh and move out across it, a tough passage even at low tide. The sun is up, the only sign of police is the circling helicopter, there seem to be lots of protesters, and you are high and nervous...
...continue, so the police come out from behind the fence, and now what do you do? You can't rush by policemen, you just don't do that, and besides, would it be non-violent? Would everybody follow? So you retreat to a high spot and wait for the tide to come in while you hold some meetings...