Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many "arts" seniors contemplating graduate study feel that Harvard GSAS is the only worthy graduate school in the country, and one probable factor in creating this feeling is their lack of familiarity with the graduate departments of other universities. This overblown attraction toward GSAS can result in last-ditch "Where shall I apply?" queries, directed very often to people who know little more about American graduate schools than the student. Or it can end in abandonment of graduate study plans...
...story begins south of the border on March 8, 1916 during the expedition against Pancho Villa. Mild, middle-aged Hero Cooper is a major in the U.S. Cavalry who at his first brush with the enemy "yellows out" and hides in a ditch while his men fight and die. For the sake of Cooper's father, a famous name in the Cavalry, the C.O. conceals the son's disgrace, assigns him to special duty as an awards officer. The coward, by a truly profound stroke of irony, is set up as the judge of what courage...
...Indians threatened again in the last two minutes of the game when they recovered another fumble on the Harvard 40. With Nyhan calling defensive signals, however, the team tightened and held. Dartmouth tried a last-ditch field goal attempt that fell short by two or three feet...
...most promising graduates that year was a bright, good-looking young Oregonian named Alfred Lot Beatie. But Lieut. Beatie was not destined to share in his classmates' future. Five months after his graduation, he fell out of formation, crashed his plane into a ditch at Kelly Field, was so badly injured that he was first taken to a local morgue. Both legs were crushed, his skull fractured. After nearly a year in a San Antonio hospital, Beatie was still so badly crippled that he was forced to retire from the Army...
Bouncing the bill back to the Hill half an hour after it arrived, the President called House Republican Leader Charlie Halleck of Indiana to insist upon another last-ditch stand such as Halleck staged to sustain the previous veto by one vote (TIME, Sept. 14). That upset victory had won Halleck a bottle of presidential Scotch; another, joked the President, would win a second bottle. Halleck swore to do his all, dutifully got off wires and cables to absentees, cracked the G.O.P. whip. But since their support of the first veto, a critical number of his hard-pressed Republicans...