Word: camel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well and good for the Foundation to honor the singer. Even though neither her actions nor her music has had any real effect on race relations, the visit was not the "proverbial straw that broke the Camel's back "nor" an insult to the intelligence of all the students who wish to improve race relations at Harvard University and the community at large," as a number of students have claimed. But the last that the Foundation features celebrities like Sugar Ray Leonard and Diana Ross in order to bring itself to the attention of students not only indicates the University...
...Harvard Foundation's sponsorship of Diana Ross appearance at Harvard is the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back Ms. Ross was honored with a certificate for her contribution to American culture. Diana Ross' accomplishments as an entertainer are beside the point in this issue...
...populist paper, written mostly in the first person, entirely without pretension and utterly without objectivity, by Windsor, who is something of a card. Windsor wears red Camel overalls and chain-chews Tums in between smoking Pall Malls, and the effect of his great heft is stunning: he looks like a denim- wrapped redwood that somebody potted in brogans. What is more, he has a tongue that could not be stilled if you placed it under a brick. "I always wanted me a paper," he was saying the other day, discarding a half-formed opinion that contemporary chickens have no personalities...
...Schlitz brand name cruises by, followed by a fleet of sailboards that extol SALEM SPIRIT. At one of the 380 or so hotels that line the 23 miles of beach, John Bradley, 22, a recent Cornell graduate, is conducting poolside tug-of-war and trivia contests sponsored by Camel cigarettes while half a dozen pretty assistants distribute T shirts, hats and other souvenirs...
...Bedford rape has become the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back for area feminists, who marched on New Bedford City Hall in protest Monday night. Their march came less than two weeks after feminists at several Boston area campuses, Harvard included, staged "Take Back the Night" marches protesting rape and other violence against women. These marches were staged in support of a march at Brandeis University, where there have been more than half a dozen rapes in the past year. The barroom rape in New Bedford is bringing a lot of media attention to the problem...