Word: ushered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...begin with, the presence of police set a bitter tone for the evening. A dose burly officer flanked the usher at the entrance of the Music Hall, eyeing suspicious types and confiscating unspeakable amounts of liquor. Smiling benignly at the pile of contraband, one officer quipped, "What do you kids want to bring booze to a wake for? This is the Grateful Dead, don't you know?" Very strange...
...Baha'i Faith began 128 years ago in Iran when a young Persian, called the Bab proclaimed that his mission was to herald the coming of one whose advent would fulfill the prophecies of all the great religions and usher in a new age. The Muslim clergy looked upon the Bab and his growing body of followers as heretics and began to persecute them; within six years, thousands of the Bab's followers had been killed and the Bab himself was martyred in public...
...known that he still opposes an excess-profits tax and then resumed campaigning in support of his measures. Returning from a 15-day stay at the Western White House, Nixon stopped off in Chicago to speak to the milk producers association and promised that his policy would usher in "a New Prosperity" -"without inflation and without...
AVIATION A U.S. Superjet for Japan? U.S. aircraft makers have been about as hopeful of selling their latest sky designs as dress manufacturers have been about getting rid of their midi stockpiles. Boeing's bid to usher the nation into the supersonic age, after all, was soundly rebuffed by the Senate, and the fate of Lockheed's L-1011 jet still hangs precariously in the Congress. Yet last week ailing Boeing, which has laid off more than 90,000 workers in the past three years, became the heavy favorite to develop a new line of jumbo aircraft...
During his two and a half years as Law dean, Bok gained a remarkable degree of admiration from a highly critical group of students and faculty. As the successor to Griswold, a crusty figure as dean, Bok managed to usher the School into the 70's with a minimum of abrasions and an impressive list of accomplishments...