Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eats and lives at a low standard. A battalion I visited well to the rear of the frontier had 500 men, only 150 beds. The mess hall for each company consisted of a leanto, two large pots, a meat ax, a couple of knives and some ladles. Bread and bean soup, liberally dosed with olive oil, is the main diet. Yet no one ever hears a Greek soldier complaining of the chow. Most of the men never had it so good. Corporal Elias Papadopoulos is a 25-year-old farmer from the island of Chios, a veteran of the Vitsi...
...rising prices; with the other, he tunes in on the desk thumps of Pentagon brass demanding special price exemptions for vast orders of critical materials, and the bleats of lobbyists, Congressmen and Senators, who are all for price control so long as it doesn't control the dried bean or the beefsteak or the cotton boll or the sphygmo-oscillometer...
...bean's Office will submit two major documents to the Student Council tonight for Council investigation and opinion. First will come the Faculty Committee on Educational Policy's report on "Advising at Harvard," and following it will be a revised set of "Rules for Undergraduates Organizations...
Aericans--and particularly New Englanders.--have lived under an ethical framework which is much too big for them, Thornton Wilder said last night before an overflow crowd in the New Lecture Hall. His talk entitled. "Thoreau or the Bean-Row in the Wilderness," was the second in this year's Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
Thornton Wilder will discuss "Thoreau or the Bean-Row in the Wilderness" as his second Charles Eliot Norton lecture of the term at 8 p.m. tonight in the New Lecture Hall...