Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Five weeks ago, the pro-Lumumba troops and goon squads in Kivu went on a drunken rampage, seeking revenge for Lumumba's death. One 75-year-old nun was thrown from a truck, and while she lay in the dust, with both arms and her pelvis broken, was' raped by eleven soldiers. An American missionary girl was held prisoner for days and raped four times. One of the biggest laughs was to rip the clothes off white women and force them to dance about on sharp gravel, chanting such phrases as "I murdered Lumumba, the Christ...
...project should be set up next year, using one small portion of the Yard. This will almost certainly not be done unless someone gets on the ball very fast. Unless the existence of the present freshman year is to become an argument against any program that has not gathered dust for a few years, Labaree's proposal deserves either a trial or a detailed rebuttal. Fish or cut bait...
...varsity track team has a chance to get back at Yale tonight at Ithaca in the Heptagonal Games, but don't bet on it. The powerful Elis, led by the Gold Dust Twins, Jim Stack and Tommy Carroll, are favored to take first in the ten-team Heps field, but Harvard, Army, Navy and Cornell all could challenge...
...much, or had only dingy rooms to offer, Amos recalled "after giving up on the housing lists, we tried calling from newspaper advertisements and visited real estate agents. Finally, on the fourth day we found our present apartment--the walls were falling apart, the floor was black with dust, the room was unfurnished, we had to pay for our own gas and electricity, and the landlord charged $80 a month. Out of desperation we took...
...Turnpike Authority bond issue, connecting Rte. 128 and downtown Boston via the tracks of the Boston and Albany Railroad. The Authority, i.e., Callahan (who controls the bond issue), had already procured an option on the right of way. Although this plan and contracts connected with it had been gathering dust for close to five years, $20 million worth of work had gone forward on the Prudential Center, under which the expressway was expected to pass...