Word: rather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshmen were more successful against their Mule counterparts, winning a rather easy 7-1 game marked with a hat trick by wing Mike Tyler. Other Yardling goals were by Dick Blakey, A1 Howell, Ronny Burke, and Tim Taylor...
Although the Masters this week approved Dean Monro's tentative plan for non-Honors tutorial, it is the departmental chairman, rather than the masters, who will make or break the proposed program. The Departments are already short of manpower, and it will be difficult to find the additional teaching hours required for a non-Honors program...
...limited to retaliatory systems capable of surviving a first strike, though insufficient for employment in a first strike." If neither side built enough arms to wipe out the other's retaliatory power, argued the report, the world might reach a "high degree of nuclear stability," a real stalemate rather than one favoring the Russians over the next decade...
Stop & Start. The main theme of criticism is that the U.S. merely reacts to events-"stop-and-start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the no-medals-to-dictators policy, which came only after all but two of the dictators had fallen, and the $1 billion Inter-American Development Bank, which seemingly grew out of the stoning of Vice President Nixon...
...Canada Temperance Act, passed by Parliament in 1878, is memorable largely because it has managed to survive so long. Canada's first Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, championed it only to prove a constitutional point-that such an important responsibility was a federal rather than a provincial right. (For himself, Sir John A. was no bluenose. Scathingly denounced by Liberal George Brown's Toronto Globe for his drinking, he retorted at an election rally: "I know you would rather have John A. drunk than George Brown sober...