Word: brunt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...returnees are feeling the brunt of the overcrowding problem because priority has been given to floaters in room assignments. In the past, however, most of the returnees could be absorbed in spite of this restriction...
Before he came to the College, McGovern had "no real awareness of what was going on in Harvard Square." Harvard bore the brunt of his jokes. Walking past a Harvard soccer field one afternoon with a group of friends, he heard one player call to another, "Gorgeous run, George." He recalls: "After that, whenever we talked about Harvard it was 'Gorgeous run, George,' and this was a sign for hilarious laughter." McGovern has not been away from high school long enough for his story to be unrepresentative...
...Unfair? Oddly enough, high school kids-even Negro high school kids, who supposedly bear the brunt of inequity-are not terribly perturbed. Draft-bound Donnie E. Smith, 18. a senior at New York's Charles Evans Hughes High School, has kept his cool about it all: "If the college guys are sticking with it and want to get further, why take them out? Everybody tells you they want you to get an education; they're doing the opposite of what they say if they take the college students out." Donald ("King") White, 18, about to graduate from Manhattan...
Resentment reached a bitter peak in Lahore, which was actually attacked by Indian troops last fall and has since borne the brunt of Ayub's propaganda offensive. The Lahore demonstrations lasted for a week, killed five persons. Pakistan's squabbling politicians, who have been looking for an issue to mobilize public opinion behind them ever since Ayub turned them out of office in 1958, held a conference in Lahore two weeks ago, at which they loudly condemned the Tashkent agreement...
...Brunt also criticized the admissions policy of the School for placing too much emphasis on preparation in a specific field, and not enough on such qualities as strength to withstand pressure...