Word: crunchingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to end this way? (A crunch of breaking glass. Silence...
...Conrads, Brookstones, Lubliners and Mermels have a lot of company in their disappointment. The great college crunch is on, and, as members of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers discovered when they convened in Chicago to compare notes, all their projections of soaring application rates are falling short. The Ivy League (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale) and its related Big Seven women's colleges (Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Mount Holyoke, Radcliffe, Smith, Vassar and Wellesley) were besieged by 62,000 applications for only 12,190 freshmen openings. Elsewhere, Swarthmore could accept only...
...blessings, the sense that we had done our duty." The Voice. It seems a distant victory now, with yesterday's friends and foes dizzyingly reversed. His own finest hour remains the summer of 1940, with the clamor of fighters overhead, the army trucks clattering along country roads, the crunch of falling bombs, the civilians digging trenches against the invasion that could come at any hour. All this is not memory but only history to a new generation. But it is still sometimes brought to life-for instance, in a massive birthday edition by London Records (24 sides) of Churchill...
...ritual to which he had become accustomed and which he accepted, unwillingly but gracefully. Grouped around the desk in the Baltimore clubhouse were half a dozen reporters for the usual postmortem. They watched Hank Bauer reduce an empty beer can to tin foil with one quick crunch of his hammy fist. "They gotta catch us," Bauer announced. "And if we keep winning, they can't, can they?" Silence. "But Hank," somebody wanted to know, "is the long summer beginning to get to your players...
...wearers of topless bathing suits. The Rev. Nicolas Stacey, rector of Woolwich, strongly deplored the concern with trivialities. "Our work is hopelessly undermined when our fellow churchmen, claiming to speak in the name of Christ, make issues about clerical vesture. It confirms people's suspicion that when the crunch comes, the church doesn't care a damn about the things that matter. I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to find faith...