Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tuesday, August 17--Went to village A., 13 kilometers from Agobille with J, another agent. He is much more dynamic than the others. When he saw a concession with dishes lying on the ground he made a point of it--we told the family how to wash dishes and store them on wooden shelves. After lunch I offered to give a demonstration of dishwashing. The word went out to the villagers, who quickly gathered in a big circle, while I squatted in the middle with a basin of water, soap, a sponge, and a pile of dirty plates...
GENERATION. William Goodhart converts a Greenwich Village loft into a sparring ground for the Establishment and the hip pie, the parent and the child. Henry Fon da, as a visiting father-in-law, fights the battle of the ages with his usual bemused charm...
...voice of a CBS radio reporter in Plei Me, where several wounded G.I.s were awaiting evacuation, "an air strike will begin and a if helicopter might very well be caught in it. They have loaded two men on. Here comes the air strike. The helicopter is still on the ground." Suddenly, the frantic voice of a U.S. soldier broke into the narrative. "Get him up! Get him out! Get him up!" he screamed. Back came the CBS man: "The helicopter takes off quickly, heading straight north. The air strike is held for a moment. The chopper makes it safely...
...appointed full professors the name day in 1925 and retired the same day thirty years later." Samuel Eliot Morison '08 professor of History, emeritus recalled yesterday. "He was a great teacher, a great scholar, and a wonderful colleague and friend. His book New Viewpoints in American History broke new ground for our generation of scholars, and nobody did more by personal attention and individual effort to interest students in American history...
...second half, Harvard's defense choked off the running of Bill McGill, who picked up 108 yards on the ground in place of the injured Bruce Molloy, and the short passing of quarterback Pete Wisniewski. But despite threat after threat on the Quaker goal line, the Crimson could manage only a game-saving field goal...