Word: bickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eating clubs, which President Woodrow Wilson tried to abolish, had been taking in the most desirable sophomores and leaving a small, unwanted minority out in the cold. Unless, said the '49 petition, the clubs made sure that every single man got at least one invitation during the annual bicker (bidding), no sophomores would join a club at all. The petition carried the day: the permanent 100% bicker had come to Princeton at last...
Somehow it did not work out. During each bicker there always seemed to be about 15 boys whom the clubs could not decide about. Eventually, the outcasts all made a club-but only after the club presidents had met secretly to determine which of their organizations must make the awful sacrifice. The 100% bicker remained, but the unwanted minority, now known as 100 Percenters, were as clearly marked as ever...
...trial for "revolt against the authority of the master of a ship on the high seas." Britain's big community of Polish exiles (200,000) rallied to the sailors' defense. Mostly veterans of General Wladyslaw Anders' army, which fought gallantly in Italy, they have little money, bicker constantly over the shadows of power left to their government in exile, but instantly unite when it is a question of combating the Communist Warsaw government. Pennies, shillings and pounds poured in, enough to hire Britain's top Laborite lawyer, Sir Hartley Shawcross...
...Bicker," a two week period devoted to selecting sophomores for eating clubs, may also undergo revision. The faculty group feels that the time could be shortened to one week or shifted from February to the college's opening in September...
After a solid year of being excluded from any real social life comes one of the most important times in a Princeton man's college life: the Bicker weeks. During the first three weeks of his sophomore year, each student who has shown interest in belonging to a club by registering with the dean's office, is visited by roving committees from the clubs. These groups that with each man, evaluating his potentialities as a mess-mate, conversationalist and fellow club man. Then the clubs make their bids. The more talented and popular students have a problem in deciding which...