Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over the past two weekends I have had about 170 different boys bedded down at my house.... They went to people in every alley and they are responsible for getting this vote, which no matter how the newspeople discuss its meaning ad nauseum, was a vote not so much against any combination of things; but a vote FOR Senator McCarthy. This is the man we are looking for--honest and believable. He came here a laughable figure, magnanimously conceded 5 per cent of the vote and he won because he represents what the young have been parading and sitting down...
...members are maladroit in the procedure of meetings. The few who know Robert's Rules are able to have their way. At the last meeting, Oscar Handlin provoked a debate over the use of the word "rally" in the television proposal. The 6 p.m. deadline approached as the debate went on, and the proposal was finally tabled for lack of time...
...detectives were the bane of post-Civil War hoboes, was a tramp once himself, and he never quite got over it. While the Pinks were running down the men they called "miserable communistic outcasts," Pinkerton himself felt compelled to confess "an irrepressible impulse to go a-tramping" again. He went so far as to argue that the Bible is "full of illustrious in stances of tramping"-including the wanderings of Jesus Christ...
...days later the Crimson was asked to represent the United States in the Pan-American Games. Swayed by Henley's glamor, Swayze and the team decided to forego the Pan-Ams. (Syracuse went instead, and won the gold medal...
...mind went back to a class in semantic analysis earlier that week. "How is an event more complex than a structure?" "An event is more complex than a structure because an event is composed of a structure changing in time. Structures are static and three-dimensional, whereas events are dynamic and four dimensional...