Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This desire to supress more liberal influences could be seen in the effort to convince Peter C. Goldmark '62, a former student activist and the president of the Rockfeller Foundation, to drop out of the running for the presidency of the Overseers earlier this year...
...come on the pretext of protecting Japanese citizens from attacks by Chinese mobs. In response, Nationalist forces moved into the Chinese suburb of Chapei and skirmished with patrolling Japanese marines. With his men giving way to the larger Chinese forces, Admiral Koichi Shiozawa ordered planes from his carriers to drop 30-lb. bombs over densely populated Chapei. It was the first wholesale air attack on civilian targets in history. Thousands of people, many of them women and children, were maimed and killed...
Minimalists trying to imitate the pin-drop prose of the late Raymond Carver would consider Banks' style uncool. But judging from the author's output, cool seems like a social disease. His structures lack grace but carry the weight of his passion and concern...
...secure base for Snowcap activities in the Upper Huallaga. The deal called for the U.S. to haul bulldozers to a settlement called Santa Lucia, where an airstrip would be cleared so that cargo planes could land supplies. The State Department, however, objected to having U.S. Army Engineers air-drop the bulldozers; diplomats warned against political backlash if American military personnel were spotted in the valley. The final deal, worked out after Lawn brought the impasse to Bush's attention: State borrowed two bulldozers from a U.S. Agency for International Development project and had the Santa Lucia airstrip under...
Those minority students who do arrive on campus feel isolated. A resurgence of bigotry has caused many to drop out. Last summer, for example, arsonists at the University of Mississippi torched the school's first on-campus black fraternity house; last spring four black women at Smith College received racist notes. In the face of such hostility, the inducements to enroll -- scholarships, minority-student organizations -- seem pale. "Overt racial incidents can have a real psychological effect, even if they don't happen to you," says John Jackson, 23, a black at the University of Texas at Austin...