Word: bayed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) promised to compensate Harvard for disrupting life in the Yard while they extended the Red Line subway network past the Square, an agreement that provoked charges of sweetheart deal' from city officials who wanted a slice of the MBTA pie for Cambridge...
February was a month for small changes at Harvard, in Cambridge, and around the Bay State. While Vietnam and China battled it out in Southeast Asia, Gov. Edward J. King and Massachusetts college students slugged it out at the State House. The issue? Hiking the state's drinking age enough to keep freshmen and sophomores sober. Proposals ranged from a flat 21-year drinking age to one plan allowing 18-year-olds to drink in bars, 20-year-olds to buy wine and beer at liquor stores, and 21-year-olds to pursue any liquid vice they wished...
...center's experts say that all these efforts were well worth it: the Bodega Bay lobsters are as tasty as, and often less rubbery than, their cousins from the sea. But there are still difficulties to overcome...
...associate director of aquaculture at the University of California's Bodega Marine Laboratory, he has been involved in one of the more promising lobster-farming experiments to date. For seven years, marine biologists, chemists, geneticists and nutritionists, working in two small concrete blockhouses on the waterfront of Bodega Bay, a quiet fishing village about two hours' drive northwest of San Francisco, have been unraveling the puzzle of mass-producing lobsters...
...durable politicians, surviving numerous changes in administration during his record tenure in office. As Georgia's top election official, he was often at the volatile center of political disputes. When newly elected Governor Eugene Talmadge died in 1946 before taking office, Fortson kept pretenders to the throne at bay by hiding the state seal under his wheelchair cushion until the succession battle was resolved. In 1968 Fortson again demonstrated his determination by defying the wishes of Segregationist Governor Lester Maddox and lowering state flags to mark the death of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King...