Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With Congress going into recess and no crisis requiring a presidential presence in Washington, Jimmy Carter felt as entitled as any other citizen to an August vacation. A white-water enthusiast for many years, he decided that the Rockies' Salmon River would provide a brisk break from the capital. The mountain vistas of the American West were more appealing in August than his usual retreat on Georgia's St. Simon's Island...
...three lies are not enough, you could check out University Hall, the building directly behind the statue. University Hall might be called "The Building of the Many Obscurities." From this building come statements from Deans about such shrouded mysteries as "The Core" and "The Hot Break-fast Plan" and "The Housing Lottery." Why are these related? Because no one, including the Deans whose names are attached to the plants, knows the slightest bit about how the plans will work or how they will affect students...
...discouraged, though. As a freshman, Larry Brown failed to earn the starting QB job on the frosh team. As a soph, he played fourth-string on the varsity. As a junior, Brownie got a break when the starting quarterback suffered a neck injury in the season opener, and went on to lead the Ivy League in passing and total offense. As a senior, Brown finds himself listed alongside the likes of Penn State's Chuck Fusina and B.C.'s Fred Smerlas in this month's Playboy as one of the top players in the East...
...Welcome Longue for Parents at the Union. This is the kind of scene that you will definitely want to avoid. Bad coffee and chewy donuts, combined with anxious students chafing to break the parental bond. Go only if you brought your apron strings with...
...injectors, developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, pumped extra energy into the hot plasma, and a shrewd switch to graphite from tungsten in critical components of the torus' vacuum chamber reduced heat loss. The director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Melvin Gottlieb, is now convinced that the break-even point can be reached with Princeton's new and bigger torus, slated to begin operation...