Word: bit
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back at Harvard, a man with many interests and a score of hobbies. Tall, lean, athletic, he sails quite a bit--"coastal cruising, that is"--and has from an early age. "I was almost born in Nantucket--missed it by three weeks. My family and I have always frequented the place." And when the wind blows cold and slush piles up along the coast, Labaree takes to the New England hills and skis ("with more enthusiasm than skill, I'm afraid...
...same attitude. It is a realistic one given the state of mind of Frenchmen in Algeria (both civilian and military) as well as of Frenchmen in France (where very few of the Liberals have come out for independence; on the whole they ask for negotiations, thus forgetting a bit too easily what the Liberation Front's terms...
...feel, and so does the Society, that Harvard's decision to withdraw from the National Student Association has been done without the least bit of foresight. America has very few friends, and at the moment it is improper to break away from the friends that...
...Thomas Whitebread writes amusingly of how bourbon may be put to good, if pragmatic, use in "The Use of Bourbon," which is all very well for them that can afford it and apparently he can't because it's clear poem. His other contribution, "Skeeter," seems a bit wordy but has some nice sounding words in it. A. Lowell Edmunds has written a sonnet which seems squeezed from somewhere...
...Born well to do, the daughter of a prosperous Manhattan insurance broker with an estate in Connecticut's fashionable Fairfield County, her rise was a breeze. But behind the beauty and breeding, behind the mask of confidence, she hid too much to handle alone. There was quite a bit...