Word: wade
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Eastern Michigan's progress is the cooperation among the eight judges. Led by Chief Judge Levin, who is Jewish, the court is a diverse group that includes four Roman Catholics, two Protestants and a Unitarian Universalist-Judge Wade McCree Jr., a Negro whom many consider to be the most likely of his race, after Thurgood Marshall, to reach the Supreme Court. If he does, he will take with him some exceptional experience in the art of keeping cases moving. So efficient is the Eastern Michigan court that the backlog on its docket is just about the smallest...
Many teachers feel that giving grades has turned into an awesome power over a student's future. U.C.L.A. Philosophy Professor C. Wade Savage says that deciding between a D and F makes him feel that he has "that student's life in my hands-and that's not the feeling a professor wants when he's giving a grade." At California State College in Los Angeles, Philosophy Instructor Beverly Woodward quit because, she says, her position was "morally intolerable-I know of no way of measuring the value of a given human life...
...Naked Wade-In. The free-sex movement has been growing slowly in various parts of the country since March 1964, when Dr. Leo Koch, a biology teacher who in 1960 was fired by the University of Illinois for advocating premarital sex, and Jefferson Poland, a restless student who says he is studying to be "either a lawyer or an agitator," founded the New York City League for Sexual Freedom. Poland, who now attends Merritt Junior College in Oakland, took the offensive for nudism by wading naked into the ocean at San Francisco's Aquatic Park last August with...
...track thumps music to feel humane by (folk themes, mostly), and Director Daniel Mann brings on the folks: Peter Finch, whose kibbutz is a hotbed of nationalist fervor; Jack Hawkins, as a British major who enforces the rules with leathery compassion; and a full quota of illegal immigrants who wade ashore and scoop up handfuls of soil...
...strength. Always an avid sportsman, he now spends almost as much time hunting and fishing as he does in the Pardo, his 16th century palace just north of Madrid. His stamina is remarkable. He can still bound up hillsides after mountain goats, shoot 300 partridges a day, and wade for hours hip-deep in the icy mountain streams of Asturias...