Word: extracurricular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...extracurricular ways and means of Wilbur Mills defy belief. His latest Foxe hunt through Boston's combat zone is a blot on the escutcheon of every Arkansan who voted for him and all who hope to see the return of honest and respectable government...
Whether blacks choose to fraternize with their black peers to the virtual exclusion of any contact with white classmates is something each one must decide for himself or herself. Despite my extracurricular involvement at the College, that was generally my choice. But I've found that I've become good friends with several white classmates with whom I had only a speaking relationship at the College. We've found that, despite differences in pre-College background, and despite the separate lives we led at the College, we have something in common after...
...Provisional wing of student politics is more extracurricular. Most of its practicioners are leftists but the distinction between them and CHUL people isn't any more ideological than it is clear cut or fixed. You could undoubtedly find any number of issues on which the views of the two wings are mainly the same. When CHUL votes on something that's politically controversial--it doesn't happen too often, but largely because of the touchiness of the Harvard-Radcliffe merger, it's not unheard of--CHUL's student members often couch their arguments in ideological terms...
...SEGREGATION. Compulsory segregation by sex is to be banned in both classes and school-funded extracurricular activities. Gone will be such hoary educational standbys as all-girl home-economics classes and all-boy shop classes, along with all-boy and all-girl phys.-ed or hygiene courses...
...extracurricular role of calculators emerged as mathematically minded users found that the versatile devices could be used to play sleight-of-button games and spell words. Because on most calculators, the glowing digits of the readout screen, when inverted, look more or less like letters of the alphabet,* the calculator owner can use the machine to compose more than 100 words and endless riddles. For example, to get the calculator to devise words suggestive of the energy crisis: put 42.46407 into the machine, divide by 3 and multiply by 5. Upside down the machine spells ShELL OIL (the floating decimal...