Word: blankets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...uncommitted fringe" of the professional generation;" others have labeled them the "service generation," but the young radicals themselves are still unsure of their common identity. They made headlines when they pressed for a revolution in sexual mores in 1963, substituting ethical standards based on individual situations for the old blanket moral standards. At the same time they began to call for nuclear disarmament, although the Geneva Test-Ban Treaty alone was sufficient disperse the movement...
...according to the blanket NCAA ruling, any student with less than a 1.6 grade index (less than three C's and a D at Harvard) is automatically ineligible for aid or varsity participation. Any new student with a predicted grade index under 1.6 is ineligible for aid for his freshman year...
...brother-in-law, who had doubted Brady's boasts about his thrill killings. After witnessing the murder, Smith rushed home to his wife, then called the police. They searched the house that Ian and Myra shared in a Manchester suburb, found "a bundle wrapped in a blanket" with a human foot sticking out of it. The bundle contained the body of Edward Evans, 17, an apprentice engineer whom Ian had brought to his house. An examination of the corpse, said the prosecutor, indicated that Evans had been subjected to sexual perversions not long before his death...
...remains the best foreseeable way to raise them. The legislators have already recognized the necessity of exempting required textbooks, but any system of enforcing such a limited exemption will prove far too costly and cumbersome. In any event, the loss of revenue which the state would experience under a blanket exemption of student book sales is hardly worth quibbling about...
...said she would be quite willing to discuss the matter with Mrs. Bunting if the Jubilee Committee wanted her to, but that she understood the Committee was not unhappy with her decision. Mrs. Bunting said last night she had heard nothing about the planned blanket party...