Word: grave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparently, one has arrived, and students who are interested in student voice and progress in any issue area, would be making a very grave mistake to let it slip away. The mechanism is associated with the "Little Eleven" (meaning, the Ivy League Schools, Stanford and the University of Chicago) Intercollege Conference; the conference is something which we should all latch onto...
Earlier last month Hellman said the present admissions system might constitute a "grave risk" to the University, although he could not say for certain that the University might be successfully sued...
Hanfy died November 19, 1975, more than 40 years after the battle with Harvard. Presumably he went to his grave with the same "Perennial affection for Harvard, Boston and the New England area" that had prompted his offer...
...groups if the inflation rate next year exceeds 7%. But Fraser doubts that Congress will pass such legislation in view of the chilly reception it has received from Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman. Many Government officials at work devising the "wage insurance program" are also discouraged by its grave problems, notably how to put a limit on payments. Says one key official: "If we're lucky, Congress will kill this thing and take it off our hands...
...mixed. Some girls invoke principle; one young lady points out that she is "the first Jew ever to set foot in this club, let alone debut in it." Others envision more concrete rewards: "my folks promised me a car for this." "My Great-Aunt Alicia would turn in her grave if I didn't" is a common explanation. A few are cheerful--"This should be a blast"; most are; resigned. Only one fails to see the point in any of it. "It's so silly--my boyfriend's already asked me if he could ask me to marry him someday...