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Word: quarters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaking order at the talks was determined by the toss of a coin-an American quarter. The Soviets called tails and won the right to speak first. The U.S. became the home team and held the first session in its embassy; the second, two days later, took place in the Soviet embassy. The sessions were marked by an encouraging absence of polemics and posturing. Each side seemed earnest and genuinely eager to get down to the essentials of the difficult and long bargaining that was bound to precede an arms agreement. Unlike most international conferences that meet amid splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SMILES AND SUSPICION AT SALT | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

Friday night the hand prepared a new script to ridicule the censoring practices of Harvard, Typical of the quick alterations was a new formation. F--; However, during the first quarter of the Yale game. Pittenger read the new band show and conductor James Walker was summoned to the press box. The decision was that another formation (CU T?) had been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Formation Censored Twice | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

...November 20 reflect an attitude which I find very disturbing. I had thought people would march because they deplored the Vietnam situation, the death of two nations and two peoples. The march did not end the war and Nixon ignored it anyway. But he couldn't deny that a quarter of a million people were there in protest...

Author: By Andrea Rhodin, | Title: The Mail EGO TRIP | 11/26/1969 | See Source »

...Warriors now enter the quarter finals against the winter of today's Harvard-Brown game. The quarterfinals will determine the four representative teams in San Jose. Hartwick has a 10-1-1 record for the season, its only loss coming at the hands of N.Y.U. earlier in the year...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Varsity Booters to Play Brown In NCAA District Championship | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

...reporter seems to feel that there is a growing trend towards violence in the anti-war movement, or at least that the D.C. protest indicated that. On the contrary. I was struck by the overwhelming rejection of violence and of intolerance by the main body of the quarter million plus people at the March and rally...

Author: By David Loeb, | Title: WOODSTOCK IN WASHINGTON | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

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