Word: bender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These resignations, she states, have turned Harvard officials against the Center. Dean Bender has refused to comment on Mrs. Clarke's statements...
...emotion dominated the mind of Master Sergeant Elmer C. Bender when he crawled out of his bunk on the morning of October 19, 1948, it was boredom. The sergeant, a debonair, dark-browed Marine Corps pilot, was at the U.S. Naval base at Tsingtao, China, and the Chinese, it was true, were having themselves some kind of a war only a few miles away. But it wasn't Sergeant Bender's war. He decided to get in a little flying time, asked a big, tousle-headed Navy chief electrician's mate named William C. Smith...
They were also bombarded by a steady hail of wealth, both real and potential. Smith drew $1,367 in back pay; Bender more than $3,000. They began getting dizzying offers (the Navy estimated that they might split $100,000) from publishers, magazines, radio and television companies. When they walked into a glare of newsreel lights at Pearl Harbor for a press conference, they acted as if they had gone through some 20th Century looking glass and into a world where everybody had gone completely, if delightfully, nuts...
Next year's parietal rules will specify severance of connection for all people who "remove books from any University library without authorization," Dean Bender revealed last night...
This will not be a new regulation, but a formalizing of administrative policy that has always been followed in respect to such offenders, Bender added. Its inclusion in the printed rules was approved Arts and Sciences, which must vote renewal of the parietal rules each year...