Word: cooped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning last fall a morose and exhausted sophomore walked into the Coop, turned over his charge card to three clubmates and watched them ring up nearly one hundred dollars worth of purchases. Still wearing their tuxedoes, the four were settling the score from an all-night poker game...
After several of these early morning excursions to the Coop, the president of the club took the sophomore aside and offered to teach him the essentials. The only alternative, the president suggested, was to stop playing poker...
Citing Vice President Hubert Humphrey's statement that Vietcong political participation in Vietnam would be like "letting a fox into a chicken coop," the group asks how the Administration can expect the other side to come to the conference table without guaranteeing them a "meaningful political role...
Sometime in the middle of January, a Bantam salesman made the rounds of Harvard Square bookstores to peddle an item called The Harrad Experiment. It was sure-fire, he said, light, sexy and with a Harvard-Radcliffe angle; a natural for post-exam period. The Coop ordered 500 copies, the Harvard Book Store got in 200, the rest followed suit. And a quick check this week revealed that sales were every bit as good as the man from Bantam predicted. So there's really no point in telling you what the book is about. You've all read...
...hospital had not been designed as a prison, and the locks had not been changed since it was built sometime after 1890. Said Hospital Superintendent Charles Gaughan: "We're holding murderers here in a hen coop." Sentenced in January to life plus ten years for armed robbery and sex crimes resulting from assaults on four women, DeSalvo, a former handyman, was never legally identified as the Strangler, but the minute details of his confession-which, by prior agreement with his attorney, could not be used as evidence-left little doubt that he was indeed the man who had murdered...