Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next to the textbook annex of the Coop, the little shop of Kitty Haas is filled with imported fabrics and unusual jewelry. Its collection includes supposedly authentic mummy beads (from Egyptian tombs) at $7.95, necklaces from Haiti, and wooden bracelets from Africa. Known for her elegant dresses with simple lines, Kitty designs and makes them to order in as little as ten days: Prices start at $25 including fabric which may be imported from Siam, Indonesia, France or Mexico. Right now Kitty is brimming over with ideas for evening wear and cocktail dresses for the holidays...
...with complaints about shins changed on bikes which were "obstructing the public way," Acting Chief Tierney ordered six police officers to move all bikes left on the sidewalks in front of the Harvard Coop and the Cambridge Trust. Bicycles locked to posts were cut loose, and the "Harvard kids' toys," as one policeman called them, were hauled in a truck to the Central Square station...
Sales during the past three weeks smashed all previous records. "We have sold more than 2,000 umbrellas since the opening of school," said a smiling Harvard Coop salesman, "far more than we sold during last September's hurricane...
...Coop offers its drenched customers two models: the $3.98 version is a push-it-up-yourself model, and is recommended especially for those with athletic pretensions. The more popular $5.00 model requires only that the carrier exert enough energy to push a "release button." whereupon the umbrella flies open with astonishing rapidity, somewhat endangering the owner, umbrella, and by-standers...
Since many of the Coop patrons are too young to vote, Lodge styled his gambit accordingly. "My name is George Lodge," he said. "Say, how would you like to work with me in this election... Sure I can use your help. Several Harvard students are already on my staff." (And here he named three or four undergraduates.) "Come down to my headquarters at 100 Boylston St. and see what...