Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge geography has always been a bit mystifying. The Charles River should be your natural point of orientation. But it meanders all over the place; it flows North to South, then East to West...
...some the strike, declared at and by an open meeting in Harvard stadium, was the thing. These people seemed not the least bit interested in seeing the strike settled, not at any rate if that entailed returning to something. For others, instead of being instant utopia, the strike was only an opportunity to wrest a few concessions from the University and declare a new balance of power. These people were actively conferring in all sorts of formal and informal bodies on issues to be launched, petitions to be drafted and meetings to be manipulated...
...that the editors entirely renounced their pleasant vices. The paper's office moved around a good bit in those days and wherever it went there was a sanctum, the center of exuberant convivality. Franklin D. Roosevelt recalled years later the occasion of the transfer of quarters to the Union in 1891: "There was much fear that the new quarters would take away the espirit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no punch night could be held in the Union. Both fears proved to be groundless...
...reportage for our fourth Ho cover turned up another bit of intelligence that holds particular interest for us. Whenever Ho was in Kunming during World War II, he visited the U.S. Office of War Information. His request: TIME, the Weekly News magazine. Later from Communist sources, we heard that he was especially pleased by our first cover portrait, by Boris Chaliapin, which depicted him as a lean and hot-eyed fanatic - quite unlike the benevolent fatherly image projected by Hanoi...
...Economic Advisers, questions whether the Board has been making seasonal adjustments properly; he suspects that the money supply early this summer may have been growing more slowly than even the old figures would indicate. McCracken said recently to a group of banking students: "If you find yourself a bit confused by all this, think of the plight of those who, having persuaded people that the rate of monetary and credit expansion is important, now find that they have surprisingly little idea of what that rate has been...