Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve Crimson companies began their drills at Fresh Pond. On October 26, Secretary of War Newton D. Baker--along with President Lowell and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge--watched ROTC work in the muddy Fresh Pond trenches and found high praise for what he saw. Forty-nine years later, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara paid a brief visit to Harvard and went away less favorably impressed...
Back to Work. Those fears seemed to be ungrounded. Though De Gaulle moved a tank regiment into the vicinity of Paris and alerted a few reserve units, there was no fresh rush to the barricades by his opponents, the workers and the anarchical students led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit. Shoring up his government, De Gaulle fired eight Ministers, including just about everyone identified with his old social and labor policies, and switched two important portfolios: Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville went to the Treasury, while Finance Minister Michel Debré moved over to the Quai d'Orsay...
...easier of late. "We are spotting convoys of more than 100 vehicles in Laos and the lower panhandle now," says one U.S. reconnaissance pilot. "It used to be that 10 to 15 trucks were a big catch." Now nearly every photo foray turns up new roads and fuel depots, fresh truck parks and antiaircraft gun sites...
Somehow, reading the works in their original setting recaptures some of the shock and excitement they must have given their first readers. Despite all the plays and movies derived from D. H. Lawrence and the countless exegeses, an early short story, The Woman Who Rode Away, emerges fresh and startling in a 1925 issue of the Dial. The proper American woman living in Mexico with a dreary husband goes off to the hills in search of fulfillment. Instead, she is imprisoned by Indians of such "terrible, glittering purity" that they ignore her womanhood and sacrifice her to their gods...
...bombing, and was nettled by the fact that she was hustled off to air-raid shelters up to six times a day because of the approach of U.S. warplanes. Still, some good resulted from the raids of the "air pirates." In one provincial town, for example, "you eat a fresh-caught carp under a red and white nylon canopy" that had been fashioned from a parachute from a shot-down U.S. warplane...