Word: government
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his woes, Wilson's grip on the reins of government is not yet weak enough to threaten him with immediate ouster. Though Labor has lost the last seven Parliamentary by-elections in a row, it still holds a 73-vote majority in Commons-down 24 from its 97-seat edge after the March 1966 elections. Parliament's term runs until the spring of 1971. Barring an unlikely uprising inside the Labor Party, Wilson can govern until then, even though the majority of Britain's electorate has swung clearly to the Conservatives...
...student protests, he had plenty of provocation to call in the police. For one thing, the strike had expanded well beyond its initial aims getting the university to cancel plans for a gymnasium in nearby Morningside Park and drop its affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Govern ment-supported research center...
...prosecution, Thomas P. Mc-Govern a school psychologist in Wiburn, testified that isolated words in Avatar, such as "analism," and "fellatio," could excite an adolescent to "research their meaning and try them." Such exposure, he said, could corrupt the morals of youth...
...Godkin topic was "To Govern for Freedom in an Age of Explosions," and Bundy's message was that the government is today the only possible agent of social reform. He pleaded with such fervor for the requisite extension of government powers that he almost ended up advocating a species of benevolent socialism for the United States...
...Club received a letter from Yale asking for delegates to a convention of the five colleges which had shown the most interest in football--Harvard, Columbia, Rutgers, Princeton, and Yale. The purpose of the convention was to form an association which would set up a code of rules to govern intercollegiate football...