Word: cum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Question (delivered sternly, cum drawl): Do you know who drafted the 13th Amendment to the Yew-nited States Constitution...
...Loves Factory. Although Canadian, British and U.S. films make strong showings at Expo, Czechoslovakia again emerges as Expo's, and possibly the world's, most formidable new film maker. Its most ambitious efforts are two multiple-projector movies, cum-brously named Polyvision and Diapolye-cran. Polyvision discards the idea of a screen, projects its images against a score of whirling spools, globes and spheroids. Again the form outstrips the content: what delights the eye is just another Iron Curtain version of the old love story of man and factory, uniting to turn out ingots, pencils and marzipan. Diapolyecran...
...Santa Barbara. At first, Sorrentino felt he had nothing in common with the suntanned college youths who "talked about summer vacations, beach parties, things I knew nothing about." But he stuck it out and in his senior year, was elected president of the student body. After graduating magna cum laude, Joe went back into the Marine Corps for two years, feeling that "I had a blemish on my record and wanted to make up for that." He did. "This time I became platoon leader, highest scorer in athletic competition and changed my general to an honorable discharge...
Pearl Harbor and the passage of the Lend-Lease Act turned Brewster into a dedicated internationalist. After graduating cum laude in 1941 (selected by his class as the member who "had done most for Yale"), he joined the State Department as an aide in Nelson
...marry him; they now have five children.* Eager for a career in public affairs, he entered Harvard Law School in 1945, because "law schools seem to attract an extraordinary number of the people who have the highest potential of each generation." He made the Harvard Law Review, graduated magna cum laude...