Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Dark Continent. "I have noted allegations of late that the Vice President has contributed little to the affairs of Government over these last seven and a half successful years," said he. "On this matter, let me set the record straight.* During these years Dick Nixon has participated with me and high officials of your Government in hundreds of important deliberative proceedings of the Cabinet, National Security Council and other agencies. His counsel has been invaluable to me." Nixon, he said, is "the possessor of a vast richness of experience in domestic affairs, foreign relations and person-to-person diplomacy...
...college admissions problem would be a little like trying to solve the matter of friction rather than grease a rusty wheel. The ultimate social question in the case of scholarship students from poor or minority group families is that of motivation, how to break out of the vicious circle set up by the fact that people draw their values and dreams from the atmosphere in which they grow up. Last year, Monro expressed the kind of bind that admissions officers often get into: "You break your back getting some tough little kid from the slums to come here, you give...
There are two self-portraits in the exhibit from 1914, one of the painter as Saint Sebastian (typical of Schiele's persecution complex), and the other an oil in which Schiele appears with deep-set eyes and a wan, bony countenance. As Death, he reaches out towards his model who shrinks away into the somber, slightly cubist background...
...manufacturer and importer of sailboats, George D. O'Day '45, captured honors for the United States in a 5.5, a 32-foot sloop with a 40-foot mast, whose 200-square-foot spinnaker his crew could set in 6 seconds and kill in two or three...
...freshman year, as captain, he participated in 30 different records. For the next two seasons, he became progressively faster, reaching new and tougher goals he had set for himself. During this time he kept swimming faster, but did so inauspiciously, not so anyone would notice...