Word: crumb
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...found out that we were where the power was," Gavin says now with a touch of bitterness and pride. He is not ready to grant the University--or anyone else but his own friends--even a crumb of credit for the slow rise of the Harvard Semitic Museum during the 1970s. Gavin himself has never received anything more than an annual $300 honorarium from the University. His own salary, and virtually every penny the museum has spent in the last 10 years has been raised by his own efforts...
...counted "under the must adverse circumstances," Genes said, adding that "It has neither a mandate from the students to be reserving judgment about the Foundation. In particular, students who worked hard for a Third World Counter seem worried that the Foundation may provide little more than a crumb thrown to them after their defeat on the major issue. The administration's and Faculty's feelings may come out next week, when Counter will meet with University officials to negotiate the Foundation's budget for fiscal...
...later wrote that at the time "there was much feeling owing to the fact that one of our editors was largely responsible for the Lampoon's outrage, but this was also a decided crumb of comfort, and the joke was too good to leave any ill will." Forty years later, when a group of Lampoon grads reissued the parody and sent the White House a copy, Roosevelt replied, "I myself, still a freshman, had been elected an Editor of The Crimson two or three days before, and my rage at the hoax was only equalled by the rage...
...Linda Crumb...
...quotations are new| to this edition, ranging from the maxims of Ptahhotpe, an Egyptian vizier of the 24th century B.C. ("Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned") to the gnomic counsel of Cartoonist Robert Crumb ("Keep on truckin' "). And in the array of such selections lies a whole history of Americans' changing views of the world...