Word: handiness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would strike us as eminently unfair for Tuesday's outcome to be construed as either a repudiation of the SFAC or a reflection on Professor Hoffmann's eloquent and spirited defense of the handi-work of his silent or absent colleagues. James C. Thomson Jr. (Assistant Professor of History) Robert V. Pound (Mallinkrodt Professor of Physics) Martin H. Peretz (Assistant Professor of Social Studies) Rogers G. Albritton (Professor of Philosophy) Members of the Student-Faculty Advisory Council
...education] 'a tool of tyranny'? Who was it who said, 'It is a strange paradox, with our complete tradition of individual freedom, parents being forced to educate children'? Who was it who called California's elderly citizens and children and the maimed and the handi capped receiving welfare payments 'a faceless mass waiting for handouts...
Only after an unusually high-pressure vote-gathering drive in June did the Johnson Administration's rent-subsidy bill pass the House - and then only by a hairsbreadth 208-to-202 margin. When the bill, authorizing the Government to help lowincome, elderly and handi capped families pay their rent, cleared the Senate by a 54-to-30 vote July 15, it was a particularly prideful victory for Lyndon Johnson...
...narrative to life: Einstein absently losing his way to the lavatory in Los Alamos, Fermi cycling his way to work, the sweat-pearled faces of the scientists as they eased the nuclear core into the bomb case and then took their places to watch the results of their own handi work: a sudden fire hotter and brighter than...
...lasted twelve minutes and left the London Times complaining desperately: "It was certainly difficult to grasp more than the music's broad outlines, partly be cause of the high proportion of unpitched sounds and partly because of their extreme diversity." Zak's Mobile proved to be the handi work of two pranksters who banged away haphazardly at "all the instruments we could find" in an effort to discover just how much the public would endure. The station received not a single complaint...