Word: corneres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They use a solvent, trichloroethylene, which appears to be harmless in normal use; but Dr. Richard D. Stewart and colleagues at the Medical College of Wisconsin have found that it does not mix with alcohol. After working for about three weeks with TCE, a man who stops at the corner saloon for a few beers or a couple of boilermakers develops vivid red blotches on the face. This degreaser's flush is so unsightly and persistent that men who wish to be rid of it have a hard choice: quit drinking or quit...
...students are more vulnerable to policy changes than any other group. As new members of the Harvard student community, blacks do not have an alumni or faculty power base to deal with admissions policy. WASPs and Jews have either one or both of these two powerful supports in their corner. As ethnic groups jockey for more slots in the College, places that belong to black students are least secure...
Most recently, the Square has become the home of a new form of another social class of long-standing: The lumpenproletariat. Draping the approach to the First Unitarian Church on the corner of Mass Ave and Church St. or behind solid objects in the Common are the refugees of the drug culture. Mostly young and homeless, mostly broke, "deprived of both land and capital," they fall into classic patterns of alcoholism, drug frenzies, and quasi-criminal pastimes...
When it became apparent that Richard M. Nixon had finally painted himself into a corner, one of the biggest concerns of the Congress, then Vice President Ford and World leaders was that Kissinger might go out on Nixon's coattails as he had previously said he would if it became apparent that Nixon was guilty. Ford was able to receive assurances from Kissinger that he would stay on at least until 1976 as secretary of state and a member of the National Security Council. But what is yet to be seen is how Kissinger's role in setting U.S. foreign...
...preclude rhapsodizing on the joys of the New England autum. The stentorian monotone of a spectacles professor rings in your ears, and to escape its ghastly sound you head for the nearest refuge, a bar like Charlie's Kitchen, or perhaps the Ha' Penny. Here, back in a dark corner, you can sip your bourbon in peace, watching other hapless souls with different but no less weighty problems...