Word: fire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the football team and the student body for lack of spirit, he proposed a separate section in the stadium "where ladies may enter without fear of being asphyxiated" by tobacco smoke, he advocated boardwalks in the Yard during the wet winter months, and he successfully campaigned for better fire-fighting equipment in the Yard dormitories. His regime was evaluated by the Harvard Alumni Bulletin as "at least mildly distinguished for the animation of his many editorials, and for certain college reforms which he engineered...
...from an airplane to give a reflection that an enemy radar mistakes for another airplane. This worked fine with the comparatively slow bombers of World War II, but the wind-drifted puffs of chaff are too easy to distinguish from fast-flying modern bombers. A promising improvement is to fire rockets loaded with chaff ahead of the bomber as a sort of smoke screen...
...incident followed an earlier stunt in which the fools staged a mock duel in the Radcliffe quad. The duelists, a judge, a doctor, and six seconds drove up in a black Cadillac limousine. The duelists proceeded to pace off and fire, the resulting roar awakening the girls...
...unidentified youths set off a fire alarm at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in Radcliffe's Eliot Hall, but fled before police and firemen arrived. The only witness Suzanne R. Hiatt '58, reported that the pair drove off in a blue station wagon...
Radcliffe officials speculated that the boys intended to ring the fire drill bell, but instead rang the alarm which summons the police and fire department...