Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President of East House, I would like to explain that the Crimson article of March 4, 1968 presented an inaccurate account of the present financial status of the House. We can now state that 80% of our girls have paid their dues. We regret the implication that East House in particular suffers from a back of activities and interest. President of East House Ruth Moscovitch...
Kaysen cited pollution and urban redevelopment as problems of which the market does not take account...
Wiggins added that the Financial Aid Office will take the higher charges into account when financial aid awards are reviewed for next year...
...present-day Americans, the knowable facts are of more than academic interest, since the events of those days set off a chain reaction, beginning with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in Congress, which has sent more than a million U.S. troops to battle in South Viet Nam. The following account is based on the Defense Department's official report-much of which was secret until last week-and an exhaustive Associated Press reconstruction based on interviews with officers and enlisted men aboard the U.S.S. Maddox and Turner...
...Francis quickly gives himself away as a cranky, querulous old man. To hear him tell it, Gipsy Moth's designer and builders created a rolling, roundheeled bitch, and girdling the globe alone is as bum a trip as anything this side of LSD. Still, the curt, seamanlike account should be required study for any weekend sailor inclined to emulate Sir Francis' accomplishment. As Sir Francis notes at one point: "I had no feeling of romance about the voyage yet but, of course, seasickness is very anti-romantic." By the end of Chapter 10, most readers will be willing...