Word: endless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least seen Harvard from another side. A lot of it hadn't been pretty. The University rudely intruded into my life around the time of the strike. There were endless, bitter Faculty meetings on the radio, strained friendships all over, news of broken heads, rumors of student plots, riots, etc. Many faculty members who had strong ties to Harvard felt threatened, and surface tensions brought out more serious problems. What they perceived as a student attitude of "Who needs the University?" was met by an attitude of "Who needs the students?" I imagine that the same aura of crisis that...
...Endless Summer. Friday and Saturday, March...
...most intricate struggles in the history of the Senate's many battles over the filibuster. Finally, the urgencies of practical politics prevailed. The liberal Senate majority, determined not to be blocked by endless argument over legislation in a period of economic crisis, last week approved a compromise that achieved the first new limitation on debate since 1959. A filibuster will be choked off if 60 Senators (three-fifths of the total membership) vote to do so. That is seven less than the number (two-thirds) that had been required under the Senate's celebrated Rule 22, assuming...
...final period of the NCAA championships and the Crimson icemen hold a comfortable 5-3 lead over a favored Michigan Tech squad. But the all-too sweet dream is soon shattered by a pair of slumbering slappers. The puck takes a seemingly endless time to reach the Crimson goal as it travels from the stick blades of Tech's Lorne Stamler and then Steve Jensen. A bewildered Jim Murray looks behind him and suddenly...
...protégé of Stalin's who nimbly escaped the dictator's endless purges, Bulganin was born in Nizhni Novgorod (now Gorky) to a middle-class family. He joined the Bolshevik Party a few months before the 1917 revolution and advanced quickly in a succession of jobs: member of the secret police, no-nonsense manager of a key Soviet electrical-equipment factory and mayor of Moscow. Although he had no battlefield command experience, Bulganin became a general during World War II. Actually, he was a political commissar, charged with the task of keeping Red Army officers loyal...