Word: boilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dusty but brightly lit bulbs. Old pop cans, boxes, and performance notes decked the floor and walls, and a new bottle of "Syntax" hand lotion sat ready for use on one of the two midget benches opposite me. There was a sense here of routine nervousness waiting anxiously to boil up, like an indy-500 pitstop ready to eject...
...Additionally, poor harvests threaten food supplies in Nepal, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia and even the Philippines and Mexico. In Haiti, because of disregard for soil conservation, hundreds of thousands of subsistence farmers face starvation. Whole families are often so hungry that they do not wait for mangoes to ripen; they boil the green fruit...
Administrators in general and Dean Rosovsky in particular have been less than ecstatic with the performance of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life lately. This week Dean Whitlock and Rosovsky told the Faculty Council about some of the problems with the CHUL--which boil down to a complaint that it does not give full considerations to the really important issues of undergraduate education here...
...Crimson survives that one, the entire season will boil down into 60 minutes of classic football. Harvard and Yale in The Game for the Ivy League championship...
...what did Nixon say the American people would boil Alger Hiss if they knew his true nature...