Word: usurpers
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...Texas prison camp, describing how he was able to survive, to get by, to live. A song is such a simple mechanism, but it gives a sense of time to men in a timeless situation; it allows them to order their lives in an environment that attempts to usurp that prerogative...
...like the Greenwich Village brownstones four decades ago. Then a price spiral begins with the arrival of uptown people seeking a chic downtown pad. Rent up, artists out; the drift begins again. New Yorkers, being neurotically fashion-addicted, not only use artists as their Seeing-Eye dogs but promptly usurp their kennels...
...cast iron Greek columns that are displayed in the exhibit, America's real values began to take root insidiously. Corporate pragmatism was about to usurp the throne...
...Richard Nixon "usurp" the constitutional powers of Congress when he unilaterally ordered troops into Cambodia? Swarms of lawyers went to Washington last week to join an increasingly intense debate on the issue (see THE NATION). Their most persuasive arguments raised fundamental questions that go far beyond Cambodia and the Indochina...
Likewise, the Committee on Undergraduate Education will usurp the job of the HUC-sponsored Harvard-Radcliffe Policy Committee. But HRPC members plan to stay active, if not officially, to aid Dean May's curriculum reform study...