Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...improvement in the stock market has already brought a $25,000 gift for a common room in the proposed modern addition to Leverett House, one of the seven large residential units for upper-classmen...
Last summer, making common cause with Communists and crypto-Communists, Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, 31, gained the upper hand in the army, placed Syria's 25,000 troops under joint command with Nasser's, and pushed deals with the Soviet bloc that by last week brought the bulk of some 100 T-34 tanks, 200 armored personnel carriers and 20 MIG jets into the country. After the invasion of Egypt, Serraj blew up the Iraq Petroleum Co.'s pipeline that carries 80% of Iraq's oil across Syria to the Mediterranean, and sent a brigade...
...Budapest Central Workers' Council told Kadar to his face: "The real power in Hungary today, apart from the armed forces, is in the hands of the workers' councils. They have the masses at their disposal." It was a struggle in which neither side had the upper hand, and the result was misery, but not surrender...
Whatever the Negroes' future, their enemies seem to be having their day. "We have no support," said Principal Brittain bitterly. "Pretty soon these Citizens' Council people will have the upper hand, and then no one's rights will be safe." This week the School Board formally asked if the Government would enforce the Federal court integration order...
...international juries had selected 95 works from 19 countries to vie for the $10,000 grand prize, established this year by Manhattan's multimillion-dollar Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, whose new $3,000,000, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum is now going up on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue...