Word: concords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concord could hardly have come at a more propitious moment. Relations between the U.S. and its European allies have been particularly strained by worries that Reagan's simplistic East-West world view would never translate into a coherent foreign policy. Compounding the problem were conflicting statements from Washington on sensitive nuclear policy issues. Hawkishly, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced that the U.S. would build a neutron warhead; Secretary of State Alexander Haig immediately noted that no decision had been made to deploy it. Reagan mused aloud to a group of newspaper editors at the White House about a possibility...
...addition to being master at Quincy House, Aloian is executive director of Associated Harvard Alumni. He was headmaster at the Concord Academy from 1962 to 1970 and headmaster of the Belmont Hill School from...
Though he didn't get the top spot Drury seemed satisfied with his performance, which included Ives' "Concord Sonata" and Lew Karchin's "Fantasy...
...Concord has no mountains and this network of trails winds through what are at best hillocks. Half a mile away, on lower ground by the river, the first British dead of the Revolutionary War fell, and if this land was cleared then, you could have seen the brief battle. And if you had stood for a little while after the battle, you would have seen--so legend has it--a young boy, hired hand in a nearby farm, happen by, axe in hand, and dispatch a wounded Redcoat. The excesses of revolutionaries are not peculiar...
...land has grown out now, and the placid Concord is hidden. There are, however, lots of ferns, rotting logs, pine trees, deciduous trees, and horse-leavings. Once I emerged from the woods to find a familiar red-and-white shuttle bus at the entrance, bearing Biology students out for a serious day's work. But the Forest is big enough to swallow up any crowd; certainly it is among the most peaceable corners of this University...