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Just as alumni never fork over as much money to the University as the University hopes they will, we lackeys didn't rip-off the kinds of rewards we were looking for. But, the odd thing about it was that by the end of the whole siege it really didn't matter...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Reunions Past I was a Lackey for Harvard '44 | 6/14/1971 | See Source »

...challenge you to a duel at ten paces. My choice of weapons, asparagus spears. It is unthinkable that anyone, even wearing Coke-bottle lenses, could have the audacity to refer to the magnificent Israeli strawberry as scrawny. A bowl of six has to be eaten with knife and fork, for only Martha Raye could possibly eat a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 12, 1971 | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

Steven Rosen '74, one of the marshals who grabbed Zorza, said later, "I'm sorry. It was a mistake. He had a fork and knife...

Author: By David R. Caploe, Garrett Epps, and The CRIMSON Staff, S | Title: Pro-War Teach-In Dissolves in Turmoil; Administration Warns of Full Discipline | 3/27/1971 | See Source »

...last the two buses pulled away from the curb and headed, one behind the other. toward Manhattan. Things went fine until the first possibility for a further delay presented itself, about 55 seconds after departure. A fork in the road proved to be the next downfall as the bus drivers could not agree on the correct route...

Author: By Deac Dake, | Title: Managers: Part III A Managerial Paranoia-The Unexpected | 1/29/1971 | See Source »

...after which he told his friend: "George, I don't want you to talk to me any more about Cuba." Smathers stopped-for a while. But one evening at an informal supper, Smathers says: "I raised the question of Cuba and what could be done. He took his fork and hit his plate, and it cracked and he said, 'Now dammit! Let's quit talking about this subject.' " Smathers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 31, 1970 | 8/31/1970 | See Source »

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