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Word: greek (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attack on an antidiscrimination bill introduced by the Labor government to protect Britain's 1,000,000 coloreds-a term that covers shades from light tan to dark black and encompasses Indians and Pakistanis as well as African and West Indian Negroes. Powell, a onetime teacher of Greek and a classics scholar, has a record for independence and strong-mindedness. Having decided in 1963 to try for the Tories' top job, he refused to serve in Alec Douglas-Home's Cabinet; he later placed a poor third in the 1965 party vote that installed Edward Heath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Explosion of Racism | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

King Vinnie. What he hears is that Carl Yastrzemski didn't just hit home runs, but "accomplished the ninth labor of Hercules, bringing a championship to Boston, a city whose previous baseball idol, Ted Williams, resembled that other great Greek, Achilles, who fought a great fight, but spent a lot of the time sulking in his tent." On another show, Broun likened the coach of the Green Bay Packers to "Canute-king, coach and general manager of the Britons, who commanded the waves to stop, but they broke through the lines. Vinnie Lombardi hasn't tried stopping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Lovable Professor | 5/3/1968 | See Source »

...local Indians did not share the enthusiasm of their benefactors--only six appear to have enrolled at Harvard over the entire colonial period. For the first comers, Harvard hired two Indian-speaking tutors who were to teach Greek, Latin and theology. Their careers were brief: One tutor disappeared soon after he arrived and the other was dismissed for "slinging stones at Mr. Stedmans glass Windowes...as also giveing base and filthy language." President Chauncy, fearing the same outcome if he hired new tutors, appealed to the London Society to pay larger salaries to instructors who "have to deale with such...

Author: By Marian Bodian, | Title: The Long But Thin History of Harvard and the Red Man | 5/1/1968 | See Source »

Wampus was followed by Eleazar, class of 1679. Disease killed Eleazar before graduation, but he left as proof of his academic progress an elegiac poem in Latin and Greek on the death of the Rev. Thomas Thacher...

Author: By Marian Bodian, | Title: The Long But Thin History of Harvard and the Red Man | 5/1/1968 | See Source »

Only one more did--Benjamin Larnel, class of 1716. According to President Leverett, Harvard's last Indian student was "An Acute Grammarian." On top of that he was "An Extraordinary Latin Poet, and a good Greek one." But he did not survive the Cambridge winter of his freshman year...

Author: By Marian Bodian, | Title: The Long But Thin History of Harvard and the Red Man | 5/1/1968 | See Source »

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