Word: acronymously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Undergraduates interested in the University's Affirmative Action program have come to expect rejections by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) of Harvard's ever-changing proposals. Ironically, a group of women who work in the University organized last year to form "Women Employed at Harvard," whose acronym (WEH) contains the letters which haunt Massachusetts Hall...
...Another acronym joined the committee beat last Spring when the Commission of Inquiry (COI) investigated and eventually rejected charges of unethical hiring practices in the Economics Department...
...chirruped the candidate, a young London stockbroker. "Indeed, yes, an admirable idea. Splendid, splendid." Freud interrupted to inquire whether his opponent really knew what MAGPAS was. "It's one of those agricultural ones, isn't it?" mumbled the Tory. No, deadpanned Freud, it actually was an acronym for Mid-Anglia General Practitioners Accident Service...
...acronym for the names of the researchers...
That group admission of guilt was inspired by a 48 -page pamphlet rather innocuously entitled Birth Control Handbook. Princeton's Sex Education Counseling and Health Program (its barbaric acronym: SECH) had distributed some 6,000 copies in dormitories. What outraged conservative students and alumni was not the pamphlet's routine discussion of anatomy, conception, contraceptives and abortion but its fiery introduction. The opening pages denounced the population-control movement as an instrument of U.S. imperialism in the Third World. The introduction also blamed urban ills on "America's white ruling class" and pollution on consumers...