Word: borings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than 5,000 students at 39 diverse campuses, ranging from Princeton to Michigan's Grand Valley State College, the Gergens found that almost one out of three students favored immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam. Pure self-interest was a relatively minor factor; the students' draft-lottery numbers bore little relation to their views on Viet Nam. Instead, more than two-thirds based their beliefs on the moral and social damage that they feel the war is inflicting on American society...
...bottom of a corpulent cutie, the label on a bottle of liquor, the barroom floor, all bore the enigmatic letters: CPLY. It is the maddeningly unpronounceable nom de plume of William Nelson Copley, a Manhattan artist-collector-philanthropist who says he slipped the vowels from his name out of deference to John Singleton Copley, the 19th century American painter...
Expressing the change in the Faculty another way, a conservative caucus member noted, "When I see the wife of a colleague in the Square the first thing I ask myself is whether her husband is going to vote with us at the next Faculty meeting. What a colossal bore! Two years ago, I would be asking about his museum work, or his research...
...find the place all but deserted. One wounded Communist who had been left behind told about the staff's "getting on their bi cycles and Hondas and riding off" the day before. Left behind were five mimeograph machines, six typewriters and two rubber stamps, one of which bore the seal of the chairman of the National Liberation Front...
...ashes and been retired. The wave machine was impressive. For an awesome instant, impossible to determine, the emerald mass reverse curls and thrusts itself back over itself in mighty interference. But empty water quickly becomes tedious, so we hurried to the first fish of note, the orange Garibaldi. He bore little if any resemblance to the Italian nationalist, resembling rather a stationary section of antipasto. From Garibaldi we walked past "Oscar," who was gray, small, and obviously piqued at his home. Huntley told Oscar good-by, and asked me what this group of obscure hazel fish were. I answered "groupers...