Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others stated that they would grudgingly support Humphrey as the only alternative to Nixon. Several students said Nixon's call for arms superiority had convinced them to turn to the Vice President. "I'll vote for Humphrey, but only because of what Nixon said about more military spending," one senior said...
...There is always room for the newcomer, the inexperienced," Profit said. "I'm really disturbed by the fact that we have to turn people away," he added...
...them as regularly as they would vote for the other two. If there are more than two parties, they will, by necessity, have to represent coherent factions of thought since otherwise they would be unable to draw support away from the Republicans and Democrats. The old parties, in turn, would have to clarify their identities to compete with the new challenges. The left and the right would be represented for the first time and would find a more meaningful middle ground than that which the Democrats and Republicans have decided is the mainstream...
...were plenty of good reasons for all the elbow room and the lack of ecstasy over the predictable sloganeering. Gene has been swamped at Chicago, Nixon, the sabre-rattling cop, was heading into the homestretch with a big lead, the Vietnam war seemed ready to take an astonishingly civilized turn, and the Garden in the fall isn't Fenway in midsummer...
MOST PEOPLE discover purely by accident that Harvard has a rugby team. Perhaps they mean to go the Saturday morning soccer game, and take the wrong turn at the Stadium. Maybe they're looking for the Palmer Dixon tennis courts, and happen upon a scrimmage a few yards away. In any case, only a small knot of students know that a Harvard rugby team exists...