Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...main effect of U.S. trade and recognition would be temporarily to strengthen white resistance, prolong and intensify the war, and increase still further the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe. But observers agree that the tide is against the present regime, and Western support cannot save...
This deeply troubles John Hanley, a soap supersalesman who rode the Tide to the top at Procter & Gamble and in 1972 floated over to become chief executive of one of its major chemical suppliers, Monsanto Co. Now Hanley, 57, is hard-selling a provocative idea: that technology could leap ahead if two basic but often distant institutions would join forces. Those two are U.S. universities and U.S. corporations...
Only when Harvard coach Alex Nahigian began substituting liberally in the fifth inning was Yale able to stem the Harvard tide. An Eli with the improbable name of Ronnie "not so" Darling was the only Yale pitcher not tagged for a run during the afternoon, as he held Harvard scoreless for four innings before being relieved in the eighth...
...then called-exacted a horrifying toll; up to 20% of the population in Western countries died of it before the age of 50. But by 1882, when the German bacteriologist Robert Koch demystified the disease by identifying the tiny rod-shaped tubercle bacillus that caused it, the tide was turning...
Student dissatisfaction with ROTC grew, and was matched by a growing controversy over the role of black studies at Harvard. Amid the growing tide of black consciousness in the '60s, Harvard had stayed relatively unmoved; there had been talk about establishing an African studies program ever since the '50s, when Harvard turned down a grant to establish such a program, but there had been little action. It was not until May, 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King's assassination and a new groundswell of black activism, that the Faculty's liberal conscience got the better...