Word: within
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 6, within the three-minute timing tolerance that orders prescribed, the rockets zoomed off, beautifully vertical. Then, mission accomplished, Task Force 88 steamed smartly into Rio for a well-deserved five-day spell ashore. To Admiral Mustin and Captain Gralla, the Navy decided to award the Legion of Merit. And from Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke came a radio message for all hands: "A most hearty well-done" for a splendidly fulfilled pioneering task...
...other hand, there are powerful pressures not to join. Campus politics is thought a "dirty game," and in some cases the belief is as justified as it is widespread. Spectacles such as the "coup" to overthrow the Council to Study Disarmament, and the vitriolic election battles within the HYRC can only arouse disgust, or perhaps amusement...
...impressive gains in organization and membership. In short, we have been laying the foundations for that drive toward national prominence and widespread influence which will bring to the HYDC in the years to come its due recognition." One of Winans' specific objectives is to "acquire sufficient prestige and influence within Massachusetts so as to use our endorsement as a major weapon in the fight for more honest government in the Commonwealth." It is a praiseworthy, but unrealistic hope...
...other hand, while it is always fun to dream, goals such as "influence within the body politic" seem extravagant for a college group. It might be better to present more information about the body politic...
...words came slowly at first, then faster; and they ran together in a manner that was more than faintly suggestive of that new language created within the past decade by Casey Stengel. Shepard's discourse had much of the charm of Stengelese, and fortunately it was far less confusing. It seemed, somehow, as if all baseball coaches ought to talk that...