Word: dink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempt to face and understand My Lai, some contributing causes help explain, if not condone. There is, unfortunately, a racial element. To the G.I., the Vietnamese, both North and South, "slant." is a "gook," "dink," "slope".; The terms, often used unthinkingly, tend to shift the object into a thing rather than a person ? and hence something that it is easier to kill...
Born in Colorado and raised in New Mexico. Stauder grew up as the son of a rancher. At high school he participated in the drama and the speech clubs. Stander was editor of the school newspaper and in his junior year, he represented his class on a rinky-dink Student Council. Good marks and extra-curricular activities landed him in Harvard despite the disadvantage of coming from a public high school in the Southwest, and having no family history at the College...
...Nobody seems to know quite what to expect-unless it's the unexpected," Montreal Gazette Columnist Dink Carroll wrote last month, when action in the expanded league got under way. Unexpected is certainly the word for what has happened since. The Chicago Black Hawks, who won the N.H.L. race by 17 points last year, have managed only three victories in twelve games this year, rank dead last in the East Division. Next, there is the curious collapse of Roger Crozier, the talented young (25) Detroit Red Wings goalie, who only three seasons ago was the N.H.L.'s Rookie...
...tappers fanned out from the windowless "tombs" of Yale's secret senior societies to perform the annual laying on of hands to select new members to their august company. Elihu, Scroll & Key, and the other four recognized societies chose more than 100 third-year men. Like Dink, Olympic Swimming Champion Don Schollander, 20, who brought back four gold medals from Tokyo in 1964, was tapped for Skull & Bones. In grateful awe, he accepted...
...series came during the aforementioned Track and Field Federation Meet. There Fordham was second and Villanova, with Ian Hamilton, was third to a surprising Michigan unit. The Harvard runners would have loved to be present, but instead were stuck with mopping up local opposition on Tufts' rinky-dink track...