Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...favored Bruins, who entertain Ivy crown hopes, were never ahead. At 6:52 in the final quarter they caught up with the Crimson, tying the score at 6-6 as a Brown attackman coming down the middle in the clear took a pass from the right side and scored...
...south in the fall of 1564. Having admonished his sailors to "serve God daily and love one another," he seized 300 hapless Negroes on the Guinea coast and went "bulting" off to Hispaniola, where he traded them for sugar and spice. The Spanish authorities-whose custom it was to entertain a foreigner with "a stake thrust through his fundament and so out at his necke"-sharpened their preparations. In 1568, Hawkins and his flotilla of six vessels were accosted by "thirteene greate shippes." In the ensuing scuffle, Hawkins lost four vessels, but six Spanish ships were blasted...
...least some students at coed Duke University share Goheen's doubts. In a letter to the Daily Princetonian, three disillusioned Duke males cited "the facts: Females having the required intellectual aptitudes to compete successfully in your classrooms will not exactly measure up to the dreams you entertain while reading Playboy." The number of girls admitted to Princeton would necessarily be only a fraction of the male enrollment, they pointed out, so competition for their favors would make the males feel as though they were "trying to get into a free exhibit at the New York World's Fair...
...recently sold a 5-ft. South American boa to a family with 2½-year-old girl triplets. Snake-fancying Sophomore Laurie Vitt of Western Washington State College has a python, rattlesnake, tokay gecko and two boas, which he keeps in his room with his tarantulas when his parents entertain. One evening, he was treating the boas to some live white rats when the guests, hearing the squeals, wandered in. "For some reason," says Laurie, "everybody stopped drinking...
Other members of the Visiting Committee questioned the wisdom of permitting undergraduates to entertain women in their bedrooms, insisting that this freedom was not available to most students in their homes...