Word: burnt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eisenhower spent that last night among the men of the 101st Airborne, who called themselves the Screaming Eagles. They had blackened their faces with burnt cork, and many had shaved their heads so that they looked like Indian warriors. They were tense and nervous, weighed down with not only rifles, pistols, knives and grenades but also cigarettes, first-aid kits, fresh socks, about 100 Ibs. in all. Eisenhower's talk was simple but encouraging: "Where are you from, Soldier? Did you get those shoulders working in a coal mine? Good luck to you tonight, Soldier...
...stepped from the bus to examine the hull of the bank's burnt-out structure, which peasant and student volunteers were reconstructing. An International Harvester tractor rusted beside several new Russian counterparts. An elder bystander complained to me that he preferred the U.S. machine, but that Ronald Reagan blocks their import. I could not help but wonder how laid-off International Harvester workers in Rock Island. Illinois or Fort Wayne, Indiana would react if they were aware of this wasted opportunity...
...that the Pi has received harassment. The members and their guests had to tolerate the heckling of the protestors on Saturday night, and the club has been publicly embarrassed in both regional and national news publications. One undergraduate suggested that the Pi Eta be "razed to the ground and burnt." (And we are the ones with sick minds?) This is totally unacceptable and must be stopped. If The Crimson is only interested in news, as one editor told me, they should have made it a point to ascertain the total story before they printed a small fraction...
This poverty, though pales in comparison to the destitute surroundings of Leningrad State University. Lenin went there and it's one of the most respected schools in the Soviet Union. But when walking there on a Sunday morning, one conjures up images of a burnt-out war zone; the buildings look so unsteady. Inside, there are papers strewn about in the decrepid and abandoned halls. Falling shingles, broken windows and heaps of litter infect this institution of upper level education...
...University plans to move the burnt of its computing off the main Science Center system onto a system of decentralized smaller computers connected probably by wires. However, officials have said they are unsure about what exactly such a system would look like...