Word: factly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WORCESTER--After the Eastern prints yesterday a young man stood on the shore peddling "sprints shirts" with which buyers could "remember the day that Harvard lost." Despite the fact that Harvard garnered the Rowe Cup which goes to the strongest heavyweight squad overall, and captured the second varsity race, the peddler was right--the 1978 sprints will be remembered as the day that the Crimson lost. Harvard finished second in the heavyweight varsity race for the first time since 1973, falling to an upstart Yale boat half-filled with sophomores...
...attack since a major oil storage depot, which is a legitimate war-time target, was located nearby. The exaggerations about American "carpet bombing" persisted for several months after the December offensive. However, by May 1973, Drew Middleton of the New York Times concluded that the bombing had, in fact, been almost "surgical" in precision. (The source for this information is Robert F. Turner's "Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development" (Hoover Institution, 1975), which should, be added to your list of recommended reading to dispel the myths contained in the other books--myths perpetuated in your article.) Alvin D. Foran...
...group of feminists occupying the offices of The Daily Collegian newspaper at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst submitted a new set of demands to the editors which calls for the formation of a fact-finding commission to investigate charges of sexism leveled at the paper, a spokesman for the women said yesterday...
...HAVE TO forgive, or overlook, too much to bring yourself to like a movie like F.I.S.T., even though any story "spanning three decades in the growth of the American labor movement" should seemingly have intrinsic appeal. You have to forgive the fact that, early on, the movie simply becomes a vehicle for the trotting-out of Sylvester Stallone in his first post-Rocky role (apart from his Mussolini imitation at the Academy Awards). Here, Stallone, cast as the street-tough union organizer for the so-called "Federation of Interstate Truckers," hardly throws a single punch during the entire proceedings...
Most important, a mentor "fosters a young man's development by believing in him." Most mentors are male, a fact that reflects the sociological gap between the sexes in today's society, he added...