Word: surmounting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...behind Manager Earl Weaver's efficient Oriole machine, three games to one. "All we need is three one-day winning streaks," Stargell calmly pronounced. Just as calmly, the Pirates reeled off three straight victories and became only the fourth team in the Series' 76-year history to surmount such a daunting deficit...
Most of these hopefuls still have to take that one-year requirement. Though they try to persuade Kenneth T. Dinklage, psychologist to UHS, that their low aptitude and hatred of languages constitutes a psychological barrier they cannot possibly surmount, Dinklage generally tells them politely that they are stuck. These several hundred students who have no physical reason for doing poorly in language courses "are the real victims," Dinklage says. "Those that have an identifiable disability get a waiver...
...embarrassed to support him openly. "There are still a lot of myths about me," Connally told TIME Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. "I've got to clear them up." But his ability to excite crowds and raise money causes many political experts to believe that if he can surmount those "myths," the tall Texan is the most formidable Republican challenger for the presidency. Richard Nixon himself phones occasionally to offer encouragement and to predict the polls will change...
...energy trust fund of $10 billion to speed up development of advanced technologies for coal gasification and liquefaction. This proposal would have to surmount objections from Washington, where pressure to balance the budget still takes priority. In addition, some European countries are reluctant to subsidize the U.S. companies that are predominant in the field...
...hard to reassure students that they can have input into official decisions when they haven't had any for such a long time," she says. Many assembly members hope to change this administrative indifference next fall with the governance review and renewed assembly activity. But they must first surmount besetting organizational and directional problems. Next year will undoubtedly test the assembly's ability to follow through on its promise of increased student participation in decision-making