Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reasons go farther. They include the politics of Harvard's black radicals and white liberals, the rise and fall of the Great Society, and the social vacuum of Richard Nixon's new federalism...
Crimson opportunism struck again midway through the third period. Allen handed off to Malone, but a devastating gang tackle on the Red halfback disengaged the ball. Tennant, with a vacuum-cleaner-like efficiency, gathered in the football...
Early on, GRO recognized the need to deal with the many other problems confronting Cambridge. The issue of big development does not exist in a vacuum. A platform was hammered out for political action on a wide range of problems. This platform centers on five issues basic to the quality of life here in Cambridge...
Oates' point seems to be that both supermen are bested by this apparent power vacuum. Howe cannot stop her from walking out on him-without alimony but picking up the $100 bills he flings after her. This climactic scene echoes Nora's liberation in A Doll's House. Elena comes as close as she ever does to coherent motivation. She is leaving, she says, because "I would be careless of my life if I stayed here ... I might make someone hurt...
Richard R. Baxter, professor of Law, told the forum that the war was operating in a legal vacuum due mostly to the Arab failure to recognize the Israeli state...