Word: dust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to their acceptance of the usual pap about the Houses, the editors have consciously tried to give more substantial profiles of Faculty members than in volumes past. Traditionally, the writing about the Harvard Faculty in undergraduate publications has taken three forms: dust-cover summaries which regurgitate schools attended, books published, and hobbies; interview transcripts which splice together quotes with transitional comments; and critical essays in which the writer combines biographical and interview material with some knowledge of the man's field to establish a point of view outside the man himself...
...tanks with 90-mm. cannon and armored troop carriers, the 2nd Battalion of the 6th U.S. Marines rolled across the red dust of a once trim polo field on the western outskirts of Santo Domingo and moved cautiously into the war-torn capital of the Dominican Republic. As the columns churned down Avenida Independencia, past the empty side streets, people suddenly appeared in windows and doorways. Some waved. Others stared. A few spoke. "I wish the Americans would take us over," muttered a woman. A man near by sighed and nodded. "Since they are here, we had better take advantage...
...clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin, who wants him for herself. But he cannot face the supreme sacrifice she demands and winds up in a catatonic state in her broom closet. By profession, Author Chopping is a commercial artist-he designed the dust jackets for Ian Fleming's James Bond books. His eye is microscopically keen. Unhappily, it is riveted on the Excremental Vision...
...contestants from the other five schools were virtual bystanders the Harvard performers set four one University, and two marks. When the dust cleared, college found itself in second with a measly total of 65 1/2. came Northeastern with 59, by B.U., M.I.T., and Tufts...
...that inning, Harvard sent ten men to the plate, blending five hits, including doubles by George Neville and John Scott, with three Penn errors and a base on balls to produce the scores. When the dust cleared, the Quakers had been left for dead...