Word: decamps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times he was wounded; the third time he copped a real "blighty" (a wound serious enough to get him home for keeps). It did not properly heal for many years, but even so, Macmillan counted himself a fortunate survivor of a doomed generation. Sent to Canada as an aide-decamp to the Governor General, he married the Governor General's daughter, and then reluctantly joined the family publishing business...
...nights a week, the solemn chess-players in the Quincy House Junior Common Room have to decamp to make room for a 15-piece jazz band. This aggregation, known as the Gary Berger Band, demonstrated in its first public recital Saturday night (a benefit affair for Tocsin--"Peace through Jazz"?) that there ought to be more jazz in concert at Harvard...