Word: elected
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great technique that caused his teammates to elect him their captain as a junior. On a team with only a single senior starter, Kenworthy was a natural choice because of his attitude...
...admitting women, is merely symptomatic of a lingering reluctance on the part of male-dominated Harvard hierarchies to sever ties with what is longstanding tradition: the University attitude of "male supremacy". It seems fairly obvious from the results of straw votes within the clubs that they themselves will not elect to admit women, nor necessarily should they. However, as a sophisticated and enlightened institution of higher education, it behooves Harvard to publicly sever ties (centrex phones, access to College alumni lists and steam heat) with this last bastion of male elitism. Since most of the clubs have already begun voluntary...
...Time Inc. last week. Sharon has charged that TIME magazine libeled him in a February 1983 cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of some 700 Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut. The killings, which followed the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were done by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The article extensively quoted the published report, which, among other things, found that then Defense Minister Sharon bore "indirect" responsibility for what had happened in the camps...
When President-elect John F. Kennedy '40 came to Harvard in early 1961, WHRB news director James F. Flug '60 managed to be the only reporter to interview him that day, by talking to him in his limousine. As a result, Flug was the first reporter to find out about Kennedy's plans for starting the Peace Corps...
Under the terms of an inter-club agreement, the five-week "punching" season ends on the Sunday night before Thanksgiving, when members meet to elect new members who have gone through a weeding-out process that involves attendance at social functions and outings...