Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state were foundering and inflation was making even rubber ducks a luxury item. Buckley's landlubbing wife Pat was waiting apprehensively ("If he comes through this alive, I'll kill him"). But with Europe finally visible to port and Africa looming to starboard, Buckley brought his crew content past changeless Gibraltar...
...marked only the second time Bok had spoken directly to a national audience in his five years in his current position. Other university presidents, including former Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey '28, have often found themselves leading public discussions on a variety of educational issues. "Derek would be perfectly content if he could get his job done at Harvard and never have his name in the paper," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University and Bok's closest aide, said last spring...
...Pennypacker more natural, with the result that residents no longer feel different from their classmates who life in co-ed dorms. "Harvard can alienate a freshman easily enough without having to put him through that," Muller says. The men in Pennypacker are bound to seem more relaxed and content now that they are no longer "outcasts" from the rest of the University...
...shirts acidly inviting their classmates to "Visit the Exotic Far East: See the Union Dorms." Of course, visitors were rare, and the students usually wound up journeying westward, desperately prowling the Yard or living the good life at Father's Six. But this year's group seems perfectly content to stay put. "People here don't go to the Yard dorms--except to steal their toilet paper and stuff like that," boasts F. Douglas Raymond '80. "On weekends we may take a turn around the Yard, but usually we wind up coming home...
...first few issues of any publication are likely to be a bit awkward. Headlines in the pilot issue of In These Times were often misleading, and one bore no relation whatsoever to the content of an entire page...