Word: boated
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Frank and his circle, gravitates toward Parkman's lower depths, a kind of Mermaid Tavern setting where the young toughs drink, brawl and frolic with the "pigs" who work at the brassiere factory. The arbiter of this elegant bunch is 'Bama Dillert, a gambler without a river boat. 'Bama is a cool autocrat of the poker table, and Dave Hirsh shortly becomes his equally cool partner. 'Bama believes that luck is a function of the brain and that man will eventually master it ("maybe thats the next stage of life or evolution us human beins will...
...provides a more gradual transition to college life than the Houses; that it gives freshmen their own set of activities; that freshmen meet more people and develop more "class spirit" than they would in the Houses; that a freshman is helped by being surrounded by people "in the same boat"; and that upperclassmen would be a harmful influence on a student's life so early in his undergraduate career...
Possibly what is regarded as the strongest argument for not having freshmen in the Houses, the inadvisability of being exposed to upperclassmen, is one of the strongest arguments for having freshmen in the Houses. Being surrounded by people in "the same boat" is not necessarily a good thing; this experience often only intensifies the fear of the academic process that bedevils many freshmen. Many freshmen take the academic requirements of Harvard far too seriously, usually to their academic and personal detriment...
...Three years later, on the night of Aug. 2, 1943, Lieut. John Kennedy, U.S.N.R., found himself at the wheel of PT109, patrolling Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Came the cry "Ship at 2 o'clock"-and in the next instant a Japanese destroyer knifed through the PT boat, hurling Skipper Kennedy to the deck and injuring his back. Expert Swimmer Kennedy saved one of his wounded crewmen by holding a strap of the man's Mae West in his teeth and towing him three miles to a small island. During the next six days, according...
...story this time is lifted from the book, The Man Who Rocked the Boat, in which William Keating described his adventures on the waterfront as a racket-busting assistant to Manhattan's district attorney. An honest pier boss (Mickey Shaughnessy), who refuses to holler uncle when the musclemen apply the pressure, is burned with half a dozen garlic-smeared slugs, and Keating (Richard Egan) is assigned to make the case against the goons who got him. He gets nowhere fast. The longshoremen, as usual, are afraid to talk. The victim himself refuses to "rat." The affable union boss (Walter...