Word: busted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sulking against the bedroom door, and Nina walked out. There was a quick, acrimonious divorce. Blume reveled briefly in the freedoms of bachelorhood, but turned possessive and desperate when Nina started keeping company with an itinerant musician named Elmo (Kris Kristofferson). Blume, of course, did everything he could to bust them up and reinstate himself...
...Pusey was in step with Harvard and social change in the fifties, he fell badly out of line in the late sixties. After the 1969 disorders and the highly-controversial bust at University Hall, Pusey slowly began to lose his grip on Harvard as the University became more and more politicized. Finally, Pusey abdicated all official responsibility; in the Fall of 1969, the Corporation granted Archibald Cox, Williston Professor of Law and fresh from a study of Columbia's 1968 crisis, wide unilateral powers to handle all University disorders. Cox, who would report directly to the Corporation, was to make...
...coalition formed briefly: Robert McNamara came to town and was greeted rudely by demonstrators clambering over his automobile. The coalition was bound together more strongly in 1969: the link between ROTC and the war, aided by the bloody bust that followed the takeover of University Hall, insured the success of the ensuing strike...
...person to emulate then, and even the Rolling Stones sang a song commemorating the working class as the salt of the earth. The political winds were all blowing leftward, in general as a reaction to the Vietnam War, and at Harvard in particular in response to the University Hall bust...
...with its tortoise routine, the Chiefs displayed an elastic defense that just would not let the Harvard hitting barrage bust the game open. Pitcher Dave Schopp rebounded in similar fashion, as after allowing four runs in two innings, stymied the Crimson for the victory...