Word: birching
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...always thought I was going to be a journalist,” he said. “I didn’t get involved in The Crimson for reasons I don’t yet understand.”The history and sociology concentrator campaigned as an undergraduate for Birch E. Bayh, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1976, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Huey P. Long, Jr., the radical populist who served as governor and senator from Louisiana in the 1920s and 1930s. After graduation, Lamont worked for a small weekly paper in Ludlow, Vermont, eventually becoming...
...history and sociology concentrator campaigned as an undergraduate for Birch E. Bayh, a Democratic presidential candidate in 1976, and wrote his undergraduate thesis on Huey P. Long, Jr.—the radical populist who served as governor and senator from Lousiana in the 1920s and 1930s...
...anger at President Carter, its confidence in Reagan, its unhappiness about the economy, its growing conservatism, its resurgent Republicanism. Whether few or all of these interpretations prove correct, the commentary has undoubtedly heartened many of the voters who elected Reagan, who voted Senators George McGovern and Birch Bayh out of office, who passed proposition 2 1/2 in Massachusetts, who elected Alfonse D’Amato to the Senate from New York. They wanted their votes to add up to a “mandate,” and it looks like that’s the way the nation...
...THIS?’Cuse arrived at Harvard from the Putney School in Vermont as a pre-med, but he soon realized his calling was elsewhere.“I had gone to this boarding school where biology consisted of being able to tell the difference between a Black Birch and a Staghorn Sumac,” he says. “And I found myself in introductory chemistry with 150 wonks from around the country who had already taken the class.”Cuse realized medicine was not for him when, his uncle—a surgeon...
...Numbers 5% Tax proposed by China's Ministry of Finance on disposable wooden chopsticks, under a timber-conservation law that takes effect April 1 25 million Number of full-grown poplar and birch trees felled in China in order to produce 45 billion pairs of chopsticks a year...