Word: prevailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disciplinary procedures against the strikers. The militants' first reaction was that the moves were inadequate and that the strike would go on. Still, the trustees and a majority of the students at San Francisco State were hoping that the acts of its word-expert president would prevail...
Eventually, Nixon will have both a party and an Administration fashioned to his liking. Thus far, the progress of his transition suggests very much the qualities of the Nixon style that will come to prevail in Washington: steadiness, caution, efficiency and the utmost discretion...
Another backer of the YPSL referndum plan, Henry D. Fetter '71, said that a confrontation similar to the Dow demonstration of last year could result if student opinion is not channeled into peaceful means of expression. He concluded with a prediction that "democracy will prevail...
...should it prevail...
...THEREIN lies the tragedy of the situation. For the instant pre-meds have, on the average, more impressive academic records. Some medical schools will try to weed out "draft-dodgers," but, as usual, grades will prevail. Which can only mean that many of the pre-meds who were planning to be doctors, not researchists, will find themselves in February with a fistful of rejections--or clutching tightly the letter of acceptance from one of their "insurance" schools, and being damn grateful they have...