Word: darting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...began with a suspicious scratching sound in Attorney General Edward Levi's ornate fifth-floor office in the Justice Department. A bug, perhaps? Much to the A.G.'s relief, a small gray mouse was eventually seen to dart into a hole not ten feet from his vast mahogany desk. Chicagoan Levi knew that the perpetrator was not from his home town, said an aide, "because it doesn't wear a slouch hat." Other Justice officials were unamused. Startled by what turned out to be a secret army of squatters in their gray stone colossus, they demanded...
With Princeton (10-2 losers to Dart-mouth last night) at Watson tonight, Harvard should have little difficulty in adding another triumph to its slate, although rumor has it that the Tigers refuse to play cards away from home...
Wednesday, the racquetwomen travel to Hanover to play a fourth-ranked Dart-mouth squad...
...years later, says Wriston, "my dart hit the board." George Moore, Citibank's great postwar expansionist, picked the young Wriston to direct the important European operation. Wriston was so successful that within three years he was heading the bank's entire foreign operations. From then on, there was little doubt that the brash young Wriston would some day boss the bank...
...deliveries to and from the fort -from guns to garbage-are made by chopper. Army patrols outside the front gate are bizarre affairs in which squads of soldiers dart down the street, scurrying from one doorway to the next in a breathless circuit around the square, then scramble back inside the fort...