Word: contentedly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brook. Restaurants buy their own, mostly through regional cooperatives, though naturally the purchases must meet rigid headquarters specifications. The basic hamburger patty must be a machine-cut, 1.6-oz. chunk of "pure" beef - that is, no lungs, hearts, cereal, soybeans or other filler - with no more than 19% fat content, v. 30% for some competing ham burgers. The 3½-in.-wide bun must have a higher-than-normal sugar content for faster browning...
While the HRPC and HUC recommendations were similar in their conclusions, they attacked ROTC from different premises. The HUC claimed that ROTC courses did not meet Harvard's standard academic criteria: that their content was flabby. HRPC contended that ROTC courses were externally controlled. Since Harvard lacked the same institutional control of ROTC courses that it demanded of all other academic courses, and since ROTC courses had pre-professional orientations aimed at producing officers, the HRPC argued that ROTC courses should be removed from the liberal arts curriculum at Harvard...
...statement gave the Right an opening not to be ignored. The statement, although filled with weighty language, qualifications and hesitations, clearly marked a turn in Administration policy. Conservative Bill Buckley caught the hint right away: one of his nationally syndicated columns a week after the speech obliquely praised its content, expressing pleasure that Bok, hitherto thought to be a "trendy" person, "might give us back our ROTC...
...hope to get a few dedicated men in the State Department in key areas and develop a sense of excitement that will last. Great Presidents have done that. They made public service an adventure. You go back now and read some of the things they said, and the content doesn't matter so much as the attitude. When I was a professor, I didn't mind too much if my students forgot the details. What was important was that they got a sense of what really mattered. Then they could teach themselves...
...light of Papadopoulos' unconvincing record as a promoter of democracy, his promises drew skeptical responses from both diplomatic observers and old-line party politicians in Athens. Said one Western diplomat: "We are in a speculative stage. The amnesty and timetable are encouraging. But how much content will follow remains to be seen." Former Air Force Colonel Anastassios Minis, 54, who has chronicled the abominable tortures he suffered in prison, was cynical: "Later on they can cook up something and rearrest...