Word: within
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coach who failed to defend training meals was tennis mentor Jack Barnaby, who noted that, "I always tell my players, 'Know your own capacity.'" He stated that he had made the practice of letting each man eat what he wished, within reason, before a match...
...making this distinction between "friends" and "enemies," I do not mean to suggest that Mr. Feiffer coddles the phonies, the sedulous non-conformists, the trend-hoppers, the self-conscious psyche-searchers, and the various other types who populate his world. But though he exposes them, he does it from within; they are "us," while the groups I have called "enemies" are "them...
...personal friends and secretaries in attendance. However, when the glamour of the present hardens into the more searching mold of history, Munoz will surely have as good, and probably a far better claim to fanfare than Castro. Munoz is the creator of a new and unique political relationship within the old bonds of Federalism. He was the driving force behind Puerto Rico's achievement of "commonwealth" status...
Calvin plus Savonarola. There Hung set up regal headquarters and proclaimed: "The New Jerusalem ft the present Nanking." The advance guard of his army rolled to within 100 miles of Peking but never captured the Manchu capital. For the next eleven years Hung's Nanking was ruled with the puritanical fanaticism of Calvin's Geneva and Savonarola's Florence. The decapitated heads of the Decalogue-breakers hung above the city's gates. Adulterers were wrapped in oil-soaked cloth, and set aflame. Hung himself maintained a harem that grew to 88 wives and concubines, but defended...
...average salary paid to the 53,000 college teachers covered by the study is $7,329. Describing this figure as "intolerable," the report called on colleges to double faculty salaries within five to ten years...