Word: broads
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There was little room for pride then: the Radcliffe liberal arts education had not provided its students with the skills they needed for survival. What Radcliffe had given its daughters, though, was a broad and flexible education. Dr. Elsie Field Doob '30 believes her experience at Radcliffe instilled in her an important need to accomplish "because I was in association with people who were ambitious or who had succeeded." Unlike many of her classmates, Doob continued on to graduate school. The daughter of a biologist and cousin of zoologist Howard Stabler, Doob was one of five women to enter...
...from the Geological Survey made a perspicacious forecast. They wrote, "In the future, Mount St. Helens probably will erupt violently and intermittently just as it has in the recent life past, and these future eruptions will affect human life and health, property, agriculture and general economic welfare over a broad area...
...three years Jimmy Carter has been bedeviled in his attempts to have Congress pass a coherent national energy policy. But last week he moved an important step closer to succeeding in the effort. After nearly six months of haggling and bargaining, House and Senate conferees finally agreed to the broad outlines of the third, and in some ways most important, part of Carter's 1979 energy package: a $20 billion program of federally subsidized synthetic fuel plants, plus close to $6 billion in related energy spending...
Such combat has not hindered Moravia's career. His entwined political and sexual themes were assured attention by strictures from il Duce and the Vatican. His latest novel, La Vita Interiore (The Internal Life), was banned last year under Italy's broad obscenity laws. The old national debate over censorship was rekindled; Moravia's gray head bloomed once again on magazine covers, and brawls erupted at public meetings where sections of the novel were read aloud...
Despite a 4-3 overtime win on Philadelphia's ice in the opening game of the finals, the Islanders face a formidable challenge in the Flyers. Once known and unloved as the "Broad Street Bullies," the Flyers proved in the second game that the title still applies. They brawled their way to an 8-3 high-sticking, elbowing win. Even the Islanders' combative Goaltender Bill Smith could not contain the roughhousing...