Word: testing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong. Possible solutions: a round table, or a square one set up in the shape of a diamond, enabling one side to assemble along the upper half and the other along the lower half. Said one U.S. official: "We may put the French furniture industry to a real test before we're through...
...Lippmann. Most important, the lab exposed a not-so-latent racism in U.S. society. There were bitter confrontations between militant blacks and self-righteous whites, stark views of ghetto living conditions, including one film shot and narrated by Gordon Parks, and cutting satire, such as a Negro-slanted aptitude test (sample question: "How long do you cook chitlins?"), By chance, PBL's camera crews tracked Martin Luther King throughout the last three months of his life; the result was a stunning obituary that last summer was voted the best TV documentary at the Venice Film Festival...
...first really big meet of the season is on December 14 against highly-rated City College of New York. The C.C.N.Y. meet will be a test of the Crimson's strength before the crucial matches with Columbia and New York University next month. Last year the fencers beat both S.M.T.I. and Holy Cross only to go on to lose to C.C.N.Y. and have one of the worst seasons in Harvard history...
...clear to me within ten minutes of our meeting that he had only volunteered his room because everyone else on his corridor had and he had been subject to some "pressure" and, besides, he had Law Boards on Saturday and he didn't like being dislocated before a test like that, and he hoped I didn't mind but he was going to take his radio and alarm clock with him when he left. He also let me know he intended to stay in his room as long as he legally could (from 8 a.m. to midnight...
...test of a good religion," G. K. Chesterton once said, "whether you can make a joke about it." Judging by The Shoes of the Fisherman, Roman Catholicism is an excellent faith indeed. This saccharine Pope opera is sober-faced and straitlaced, but it would be hard to imagine a parochial-school sixth-grader taking it seriously...