Word: half
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next hour and a half they came dribbling slowly out of doors, the saddest first, into wine shops, into bars, the Harvard Pro, or just to wander around the Square...
President Nixon asked state draft directors early last summer to set uppanels of young people to advise them. Massachusetts had not done so by a week and a half ago, but picked DiCara to attend the drawing because "we were very impressed by Larry's credentials...
...attempt to unify these views may easily degenerate into a hodge-podge of compromising half-steps-manifested in a general report that comments on Harvard education but makes no recommendations, or a set of specific, yet conflicting proposals that follow no cohesive pattern...
...round the world." In junior high we learned that one-third of the colonists were for the revolution, one-third against it, and the rest (conveniently) undecided. In high school we learned that George Washington wasn't much of a hero. At the Lexington visitors' center, less than a half-hour by car from Cambridge, you learn that if the British had had tear-gas there might have been no revolution...
...park service attendant in the visitors' center is genuinely helpful. He reminds us who fought at Saratoga and what the name of that famous traitor was. He also hawks a slide show (12 minutes every half hour on the half hour...