Word: asks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members-were welcome anytime. Since Cambridge was a no-license city in those days, students had to go either to a final club or to Boston for "exhilarating beverages." For returning alumni, the Union was to be a "Harvard Club of Cambridge." where under-graduates would meet those "Who ask for the sunshine of their fresh years." Dues, bringing privileges and voting Dowers, ran from $5 Associate membership for Cambridge residents to $50 Life privileges for alumni...
...quoted Professor Fred Rodell (whoever he is) of the Yale Law School as referring to Haynsworth as a "mediocre slob." May I ask that if you insist on quoting from representatives of such institutions you request them to do a little upgrading of their faculties? There are many of us who are not always impressed or intimidated by the Ivy League, and we still appreciate gentlemen who have differing points of view. It doesn't take much sense to see that the "mediocre slob" statement is much more a reflection upon the one who said it than upon Judge...
...chat and a whisky three or four times a week, and gained many insights into the man's mystique. "When you interviewed him, he was always interviewing you," recalls White. "You got the impression that he had been isolated for a long time. He would ask questions about what San Francisco looked like. What were the buildings like? How many people had cars, refrigerators? He didn't seem to be interested in Communism as an international conspiracy. He talked in terms of what the country would...
...young Mormons) through Georgia, Alabama and Florida, followed by a tour as a war correspondent in China, gave him a view of the world. But it was still a shy and polite young man of 24 who walked uninvited into Pearson's office one morning in 1947 to ask for a job. He got it, Pearson no doubt sensing in Anderson the virtues he most revered in himself: industry, uprightness, zeal...
...Mets' maladies lingered. The humor began to wear a little thin ?at least in the clubhouse. "It was no fun, no laughs at all," recalls Jones, who played in six games that year. "Imagine walking into a locker room before a game and hearing guys ask, 'Well, who's going to blow it for us today?' Or people referring to you as the Ringling Brothers Circus. I was too embarrassed to show my face in public." For those who groused about their station in life, Casey conjured a classic reply: "I been hearing that some of these ballplayers...