Word: glees
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Glee Club may be forced to seek a commercial loan, possibly as large as $18,000, to finance a tour of nine Asian and European countries with the Radcliffe Choral Society this summer...
Goodhue said he would meet with the Glee Club Foundation later this month to discuss the proposed loan. The Foundation, made up of Glee Club alumni, would have to guarantee any loan because of laws prohibiting undergraduate organizations from commercial borrowing...
...spectacles on his ample nose as outrigger canoes bearing lovely Polynesian girls passed in review. At a tamaaraa, the traditional Tahitian feast, the general sampled all the specialties: spinach with pork from earthen ovens, breadfruit, cooked bananas in coconut cream sauce. Everywhere, he plunged with a balance of glee and gravity into the smiling crowds shaking hands, and more than once was draped with leis and bussed by dusky native beauties in return...
...reason is that civil rights bills have never previously hit Northerners so close to home. From the moment it was drafted, a powerful coalition of builders, real estate men and politicians of all persuasions objected to the housing measure, and Southern civil rights foes viewed their discomfiture with undisguised glee. "For the first time," chortled North Carolina's Democratic Senator Sam Ervin, "we have a bill which proposes that other than Southern oxen are to be gored...
...want Mississippi to know that it is a part of the Union. We want white folks to know we have died for the flag too." With that, he lodged the Stars and Stripes in place above Jeff Davis' head. As the 600 Negroes in the square roared their glee, Grenada's whites glowered their hatred-"I saw two of my niggers in there," snarled one. "They won't have no jobs tomorrow"-yet did nothing. Town officials met the marchers' every major demand. They desegregated toilets in the courthouse, allowed four Negroes to help enroll voters...