Word: feds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aroused to Challenge. If U.S. police officials sometimes suspect Communist influence behind student protests, it comes as no surprise that Communist leaders in Czechoslovakia saw "capitalist agitators" behind a protest march by students of the Technical University of Prague. Actually, they were merely fed up with continual breakdowns in heating and lighting on their campus, caused mainly by rats chewing through electrical insulation...
...that constant striving for purity that fed his artistic and spiritual life. While carousing in the Caucasus, he wrote Story of My Childhood-which was instantly accepted for publication and drew praise from Turgenev and Dostoevsky. Later, in the Crimea, Tolstoy served bravely as an artillery officer and wrote Sevastopol Sketches, which, in their fidelity to the sweep and detail of battle, rank as some of the best war correspondence of all time. The very flaws and inconsistencies that he displayed during those years would, as Troyat notes, "later enable him to embrace the attitudes of each of his characters...
Finally, at 14:45, with 15 seconds left in the period, Owen fed Cavanagh cutting toward the right side of the B.C. goal, and the Andover grad tapped it in. Harvard's captain and goalie, Bruce Durno, wasn't seriously threatened in the first frame...
...Island's Kollsman Instrument Corp., Moskowitz and his co-workers plotted a hypothetical space flight to the star 45 Eridani, barely visible to the naked eye from earth and some 466 light-years away. Picking well-known stars in 45 Eridani's region of the sky, he fed data about their positions, distance and absolute brightness into a computer programmed to generate the appropriate star map for any point along the route of the flight...
...their resources-faculty, students, space, the curriculum to be offered: Then students, with the aid of their advisers, prepare lists of courses in which they would like to be enrolled with preferences and acceptable substitutes. The data are translated into computer language, coded, and punched onto IBM cards, then fed into the computer, which takes minutes to print out a master schedule-student schedules, teacher schedules, room-use schedules -a complete catalogue of who is to teach what, when, where and to whom...