Word: column
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name of some forgotten dog competes with book critiques. Analysis of a philosophical essay mixes with scuttlebutt of a gossip column: a horoscope predicted a bad end; a Vassar campus newspaper considered the writer's visit to New York "one of the cultural events of the season...
...clothing. Nobody bothered to tell them what would happen next. The home of a nearby relative was stoned later in the week when the family moved in with her. Police found ten suspects, all of whom were charged with vandalism, a misdemeanor. This story took up only one column on page three of The Globe, under the headline "Guatemalan Family Flees." The Boston Herald American didn't carry the story at all. After pressure from a state representative and a lawyer from the Civil Liberties Union, Mayor White issued a statement "deploring" violence and reminding protesters that "such incidents...
Only captain Gene Vastola survived the preliminary rounds (which determined the team champions), and even he made it to the finals by only the barest of margins (see column at left). Once in the finals, Vastola, who had a shot at third until his last bout, placed sixth...
...bench in his life," Langone cried. He should have something "more dignified." In reply, one William E. O'Halloran of Newtonville took pen in hand and tongue in cheek. A mere $65,000 was "not nearly enough," O'Halloran opined in the Boston Globe's letters column. But there is another way that "will cost us nothing and accomplish much." Concluded O'Halloran: "There is no longer any viable reason we should call our river after an obscure and no-account English King. We should spend nothing and rename the Charles River the Curley River...
...Harvard swimming coaches in recent years, the announcement of diving scores has become music to their ears, meaning that it's time to sit back and watch the points pile up on the scoreboard in the column under...