Word: earn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that your parents aren't rich enough to have you meet them on Martinique. You might have tried out for the lacrosse, baseball, tennis or golf teams--all are planning group vacations in the sun--but not everyone can make it. Dorm crew or driving the shuttle bus to earn enough to rent one-seventh of a Toyota for the trip to Fort Lauderdale would have hurt your chances for Group III. However, there's no excuse for not selling tickets to the Pudding show and getting the trip to Bermuda. You're lucky that The Crimson even realizes that...
...these riches: petroleum from major new oilfields in Western Siberia, coal from Neryungri and Chulman, iron ore and gold from Aldan, diamonds from Yakutia, and salt, asbestos, molybdenum, copper, tin and bauxite from various areas. Shipped to Japan and other resource-hungry nations, such exports will help Moscow earn the foreign currency it needs to pay for technological development...
Chipman joked last night that he would wake this morning at 4:30 a.m. to start warming up and avoid the early problems he had yesterday. He will need to take almost all his bouts to move from his current tenth-place standing to sixth and earn All-America honors...
...Harvard in Ivy scoring (14.4 avg.) enroute to nailing down the runner-up slot behind Banks in total scoring (12.6 avg.) and rebounding (5.1) for the second straight season. Despite rarely starting, the junior swingman wowed enough Ivy coaches with his roller-coast rides down the lane to earn All-Ivy honorable mention...
...lives of South African blacks, Sobukwe was sentenced to three years in jail for "incitement to riot." When his term ended, Parliament passed a law empowering the government to keep political prisoners in custody indefinitely, and Sobukwe spent the next six years in another prison, using the time to earn an economics degree. Finally released in 1969, he was restricted to a small black township in Kimberley. He was denied permission to emigrate, but three of his four children moved to the U.S. to live with their father's friend, U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young...