Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIGHT over rent control for Cambridge waged around City Hall during the past few weeks has been one of the most emotionally charged disputes ever to take place in the City's politics. Especially for its proponents, rent control came to be a symbolic showdown, a last ditch struggle against the forces which have been inexorably transforming the Cambridge they have known into a new City--one which they are best regard suspiciously...
...extent that Friday learns English and performs complicated chores. But the Negro-Indian half-caste will go no further; he refuses to be a black Englishman. Although he is tireless, he is not diligent. He is clever, but not rational. For him, the Church of England, punitive ditch digging and goatskin trousers are merely the mystifying apparatus of Crusoe's games. At last, Crusoe realizes that Friday's instincts may be more sensible than his own. He abandons his bookkeeping system of morality, adopts Friday's formless sun worship and lives in harmony with his friend...
CARLYN PROFIT is a sore filly who drops again in class for a last ditch effort to capture the winners purse, LITTLE MISS MAULER has run close to males, MISS LENOR shows some speed...
...crux of the dispute, the student himself, has amoeboid into a polyglot of campus factions, quarreling, poaching, threatening, taking pro and con stances, some militant, some passive, others ready to ditch it all to crack the books once again...
Couldn't someone have told Collins to ditch his marijuana...