Word: procession
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...tremendous success," G.O.P. defeats lay all about. Democratic leaders brandished numerous trophies of their victory. They had increased their control of the House of Representatives by nine votes. They had wrested at least twelve states out of the hands of Republican Governors while yielding only two, in the process turning back strong Republican challenges in the South and sealing the Midwest, the traditional Republican heartland. They had captured legislative chambers in at least eight states, while Republicans had lost ground in another 29. Only in the U.S. Senate could Republicans claim a gain-three seats at best...
...sheriff of Middlesex County in Massachusetts has long done little more than march at the head of the Harvard commencement parade and appoint deputies, who made as much as $40,000 a year in fees for process serving. Critics charged that the office was marked by more than a hint of political patronage and monetary kickbacks. Named to the job earlier this year when the longtime Democratic incumbent died, Republican John J. Buckley immediately reformed the office. He hired guidance specialists for the house of corrections, which the sheriff runs, moved to separate juvenile prisoners from older offenders, used student...
...colonies. No Blimp bucking the winds of change, he was cashiered for showing too much sympathy for the local independence movement. After independence, Bray accepts an invitation to return as an educational consultant to Miss Gordimer's nameless, composite, new African nation. His professional commitment to the excruciating process of Third World nation building is complicated because the country's opposing political factions -one moderate, the other revolutionary -are led by two of his former proteges...
...committed to the democratic process," said Wiggins. "The Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life is supposed to represent the students. It's elected and invested with more official standing than your group...
...Harvard graduate student would go into the class, the teacher would leave the room, and the grad student would explain the process." said Albert Giroux, a member of the Cambridge School Committee and Public Relations. Director for the school system. "First they would discuss how many students they thought were using drugs, and then the students would indicate by anonymous ballot whether they personally had tried drugs or not," he said...