Word: breed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public life to a reclusive existence, publishing her diaries and letters. Last week, Baking a rare public I appearance, the widow of "Lucky Lindy" traveled to Washington to accept the Award for Achievement from the National Aviation Club. "Pilots of the '20s and '30s were a special breed," she recalled. "They wanted to expand life's possibilities to the limits, and their dreams and aspirations, to a large extent, have come true. As my husband said 25 years ago, 'We live today with the dreams of yesterday...
...Harvard athlete a unique breed? Harvard coaches appear to think...
While heroin usage still remains concentrated in the nation's ghettos, officials are seeing evidence of a new breed of "upwardly mobile" addicts. "They are the shooters who think they can beat the game--white collar workers using heroin only occasionally, just enough to keep going, and frequently mixing with other drugs," says Vic Gelineau, head of the Massachusetts Division of Drug Rehabilitation. Rather than taking root in a counter-culture and espousing alienation from the establishment, the modern group of users is effectively indistinguishable from other elements of society. "These are people from the establishment," says Gelineau. "Most...
...causes of the deterioration in student behavior in recent years is undoubtedly overcrowding. Some of the same Houses that Lowell once intended to hold few more than 300 students now contain more than 400. As any social psychologist or senior tutor will affirm, quarters cramped to that degree inevitably breed tension and unpleasant incidents. Not surprisingly, the committee that called for a race relations foundation last winter cited congestion as a main cause of racial incidents on campus. There's little the University can do, though, in the way of short-run remedies. Until Harvard can replace the Indoor Athletic...
Honorable intentions are an integral part of cooperation. Harvard managed to create enough trust with the well-heeled set on the fringes of University Place to reach a satisfactory compromise. But it shows no signs of trying to breed trust with its other neighbors. And without trust, pretty soon the talking will break down. Instead of cooperating with each other to win their goals, everyone will be suing again. True cooperation demands commitment--it appears the University has yet to make up its mind...