Word: compound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students, all of whom will be seniors in nearby schools next fall, will live and work in Thayer's "Chinese compound" for nine weeks this summer, and will continue to receive four hours of Chinese instruction a week during the coming academic year. Next summer some will attend college language programs in the U.S.; others will spend six weeks at Formosa's Tunghai University...
...behind the cell wall. From there, they climbed up a 30-ft. pipe to an air-conditioning vent, pried it loose and squeezed through to the roof. By now they were in full view of the guardpost at the No. 1 tower at the northern end of the prison compound...
Popping a Precedent. Never before in Pulitzer history have Columbia's trustees vetoed a board recommendation,† and never before have the annual Pulitzer prizes failed to anoint a biographer. To compound the mystery, the trustees popped their veto without bothering to inform anyone-even the advisory board-in advance. Then, as questions flew, the trustees took refuge in silence...
Nevertheless, Professor Hughes has decided to suspend the intellectual dilemmas and run. His compound role--Hughes the intellectual, Hughes the politician, Hughes the man of issues, Hughes the image, Hughes the reformer, and Hughes the peace advocate--is, to be sure, fraught with ambiguities. The voters may not mind the ambiguities, but some Harvard people do, and one often hears them ask, "Why is he doing...
...first act is a throwback to the old-fashioned football college comedy where education consists of numskull sessions and coeducation of necking sessions. The second (and last) act plunks a few blank cartridges into Madison Avenue, the most oversimplified U.S. symbol of evil since George F. Babbitt. To compound the sense of the archaic, the hero tumbles onstage with a planeload of European fellow immigrants to raise an Ellis-Islandish plea of ''melt us" before audiences that would rather be caught naked than stewing in the common pot of conformism...