Word: bringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...audience was almost overwhelmingly in favor of the freshmen. The reason is obvious. The freshmen were going to bring Harvard basketball to an Ivy title and perhaps national prominence in the next few years, and a loss to the varsity-the varsity that has wallowed in the second division for years-would have shattered the dream...
Becalmed Republic. Though some overenthusiastic reporters hailed Rocard as "the first swallow of a Socialist spring," his victory will hardly bring red flags and barricades into the elegant Bourbon Palace, where the Assembly meets. He is, after all, the only Deputy representing the P.S.U. so far. Moreover, under unwritten parliamentary rules that minimize the influence of small parties, he is entitled to hold the floor for only about an hour per year. From the viewpoint of President Georges Pompidou, Rocard's election may even prove a blessing. Four former Gaullist Ministers have won by-elections in recent weeks...
...early 1950s, when Gell-Mann made his debut as a theoretical physicist, the discovery of a host of strange and short-lived bits of matter had turned the once orderly world of subatomic physics into what scientists called a "zoo." To bring some order out of the chaos, Gell-Mann-at the age of 24 -formulated his Theory of Strangeness (named after Francis Bacon's line: "There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion"). He assigned a value to each of the puzzling new particles: a "strangeness" number based on their peculiar rate...
...young model of Victorian gentility redeemed by intelligence and irony, is an amateur naturalist and a postulant for the new faith of evolution. But he is still pledged to old pieties through his engagement to the shallow daughter of a rich London merchant. Fowles' strategy is to bring the contradictions of Charles' situation-and, by implication, of the Victorian age-to a crisis...
...late meeting of 250 ?AC members in the student center around 2 a. m., support for militant action today appeared to be waning. Protestors decided to split up and canvass in area high schools and colleges to explain the NAC demands and bring people to a final march Saturday from Government Center to the Boston induction center...