Word: briar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ground that Doyle had been unlawfully imprisoned because his court-appointed lawyer had had only a few hours to prepare a defense. In a scathing order, Craven told North Carolina that imprisoning rather than treating Doyle "is a little like throwing Br'er Rabbit in the briar patch." And he asked: "Is it not time to redraft a criminal statute first enacted in 1533? And if so, cannot the criminal-law draftsmen be helped by those best informed on the subject-medical doctors...
Though she is a touch too pretty to look as if she knew what she was doing, Jenny Bell, 36, is no fashion fledgling. While still a college girl at Sweet Briar, she made the cover of Mademoiselle Magazine ("It was scrubbed looks and bangs they were after"). Two years later, she found that no one cared if she scrubbed or grew grimy, ("Sophisticated models were the ones who got jobs"), decided to try her hand at designing instead. After 17 jobs and 13 years on Manhattan's 7th Avenue, she was unemployed. "Manufacturers," she explained, "never did what...
...grass sound asleep. His face was dirt-smudged, he had lost one shoe, there was a scratch on his cheek-but otherwise he seemed all right. The youngest East German refugee evidently had crossed the Iron Curtain with the ease of Br'er Rabbit skipping through the briar patch, somehow missing the mines and the gaze of the Grepos. When he woke up, he could only say: "Ich heisse Peter [My name is Peter...
Verses like this, which today would hardly cause a raised eyebrow were they to appear in the Sweet Briar College literary magazine, burst like a sinful star shell in the stodgy gloom of Victorian England. Mothers clutched their daughters. Fathers bethought themselves of horsewhips. Staid critics, resorting to apoplectic prose, apostrophized the author as the "libidinous laureate of a pack of satyrs." But a youthful public in London lapped up copies of Poems and Ballads when it came out in 1866, and Poet Algernon Charles Swinburne became famous and infamous almost overnight...
...Harvard sophomores are among 106 students admitted to the 1962-63 junior year in France, the foreign student program administered by Sweet Briar College since 1948. The six are: Robert D. Lamberton, Joseph R. Scott Jr., Nathaniel B. Smith, Miner H. Warner, James D. Wilkinson, and C. Loring Woodman...