Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Butler arrives to discuss some new form of association that might keep the territories together. Sir Roy will get Butler's ear; but so will the bitter blacks. Said Simon Kapwepwe, acting boss of North ern Rhodesia's major black party: "We know the Federation is dead. This is the last general election...
...astronauts on their first flight as far out as the moon, passed its second test in a row with a perfect score. Its cluster of eight liquid-fuel engines lifted the 20-story, 927,000-lb. missile off the launch pad in a spectacular display of steam and ear-shattering sound. And since the test was concerned only with Saturn's first-stage booster, scientists were free to use the dummy upper stages for an ingenious experiment. Stored in Saturn's snout as ballast were 23,000 gal. of water weighing 95 tons. When the rocket neared...
...report on ticket sales distributed last week by the Council for Undergraduate Affairs discusses in generally ear and sensible terms an issue long clouded in misunderstanding. The report's proposals for change and arification in ticket policy are logical and modest; yet perhaps just for this reason, and because the sale of tickets is an essentially unglamorous topic, the report will probably not attract a great deal of attention. Indifference to the Council's work would be regrettable; hopefully, the straight-forwardness of the report's proposals will lead to their enactment...
...short story competition, James A. Culpepper '64 won first with "The Past," with second place shared by Charles A. Hart '63 for "I Love You Valina," and Phillip G. Schrag '64 for "Give An Ear...
Little Corn. Presumably this is Richter's own clergyman father. Religion can be a heavy garment for the young. If the preacher's son can be taken for Rich ter himself, he found the religious atmosphere oppressive - "his ear assailed by the peculiarly dry and sterile vulgate of the church, his young life faced by the stern presence of rituals and sacraments, of vows and austerities, of obligations and constraints, all under the overhanging shadow of the cross." But the acerbic tone shows only occasionally; in the end, after following the parson on his rounds from one parishioner...