Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after announcing that it intended to pledge a Negro. The trustees of Brown University ordered the Brown Sigma Chi chapter to disaffiliate on grounds that the national organization was discriminatory. Sigma Chi has filed a federal suit to force the University of Colorado to end the probation of its Boulder chapter. Officials of eight Eastern colleges recently met privately in Syracuse, N.Y., to agree on how to handle their Sigma Chi chapters...
That brought a mob of students to the presidential palace. Police panicked, fired into the mob, killing three and wounding 32. Next, angry knots of leftists stormed through the streets, looking for cops. They found three, one of whom was gunned down, another stripped naked and brained with a boulder. The third was soaked in gasoline and burned alive. When Caminero still refused to leave, the left called a general strike...
...British film industry paid for his next film, Man of Aran, an almost too beautiful picture of life on a great spumy boulder set in a western sea. Somewhat unjustly, the critics found it pretentious, and the public couldn't have cared less. So Flaherty waited twelve years to make his next important picture. In 1946 Standard Oil picked up the tab for Louisiana Story, a mellow and charming parable of the encounter between nature and technology, the crocodile and the oil derrick. In 1951, at the age of 67, Flaherty died of a cerebral thrombosis...
...always reliable history. David Shub's Lenin is a plant whose roots are a bit shallow, since it was written without the benefit of recently discovered documentary material. Louis Fisher's book is definitely right, but it's just a middle-sized stone. Now Adam Ulam has written a boulder...
...Pleiku, a government relief force was quickly assembled but more cautiously dispatched. While its tanks, M-113 armored personnel carriers, artillery and a thousand infantrymen crept in by road, a helicopter landing force of 250 Vietnamese Rangers dropped boldly into Plei Me at first light. Commanded by burly, boulder-bellied U.S. Army Major Charles H. Beckwith, 36, of Atlanta, the Rangers quickly filled the vacuum caused by the Reds' initial assault...