Word: handly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might have succeeded. It might have succeeded because the extraordinary men who put it together thought it could. They calculated thousands of human and mechanical contingencies and provided for them in their preparations. But always in these things providence demands a part, and no human can reckon with that hand. Washington, Jackson, Custer, Doolittle risked and won-and sometimes lost. God knows why, and we are not going to know finally this time...
F.D.R., on the other hand, smoothly adjusted to each change in the cycle. In 1932, in the depths of the Depression, he began as a conciliator. Four years later, after the electorate had divided over the New Deal, he turned more strident. In 1940 he appeared as a patriotic moralizer, preparing for war while keeping the nation out of it. Finally, in 1944, he began another cycle as the great wartime unifier...
...Friday, the district attorney, who said the same angry students that met with the master called him with news of the showing, phoned Epps to say the movie was obscene and that he had asked the city police to be on hand for the showing...
...same time, school board members and other civic and community leaders should realize that implementing an unwise plan simply because it is at hand could be devastating not only to the city's reaction to racial balance but also to the attempts of the schools to provide sound education. Those who question the redistricting plan must share their concerns at the public hearing scheduled for later this month; the school committee must also decide whether it thinks the proposal is the best method of both educating and desegregating pupils...
This season's seven-assist game against Yale followed by a six-goal outburst to help the laxmen drub UNH, served as reminders that the ambidextrous middie can do it all. Despite a serious hand injury which forced him to miss five games and finish his junior season in a cast, Predun now ranks number two on the Crimson's all-time scoring list with...