Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jeans and no official standing at Harvard or anywhere else. They pretended they were Harvard students, ate in the university dining halls and sat in on some classes. Joan Baez, who has long been thought of as a sort of otherworldly beatnik because of her remote manner, long hair, bare feet and burlap wardrobe, actually felt distaste for these academic bums from the start. "They just lie in their pads, smoke pot, and do stupid things like that," she says...
...getting late in the football season. Hour exams suddenly appear to shatter the calm of the reading-period scholar, a wintry breeze rattles the bare branches of the trees in the Yard, and the Harvards are playing the Princetons for the 55th time at Palmer Stadium in Princeton today...
...power in the crisis year of 1958. Instead, he gave France a new constitution and a strong government. In a final tribute to De Gaulle, Malraux said. "History will say of him when we are dead, 'Since his return, this man twice stopped civil war with his bare hands...
...balconies is open space. This gives Richard, and everyone else, plenty of room to bustle in, and it must be said that Mr. Abbott takes full advantage of the opportunities thus afforded. There is no end to the bustlings, sweepings, groupings, and regroupings that his actors form on this bare stage. The eye is kept interested long after the ear has begun to tire. There are also costumes, handsome for the most part, and music, never worse than run of the mill...
...determination of the Indian people, reinforced by an ancient, almost visceral dislike of the Chinese. A Bengali teacher said, "I met some Communist acquaintances last night. I told them that if they turned out to be responsible for bringing sorrow to our country, I would kill them with my bare hands." Unions decided to give up strikes. Even India's Communists obliquely condemned Red China, and pacifists like saintly Vinoba Bhave supported the war effort...