Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University isn't the only one who makes money off the event. Every year a few hundred students hang around for a week after school closes to assist Buildings and Grounds in erasing any traces of a year at Harvard that could upset an alumni wife (like scum in the shower stalls and marijuana seeds in the bureau drawers), and a few dozen of the best of these are chosen to stay on to work the handful of lucrative details that oil the relentless flow of events that comprises the Reunion. The "best" are, of course, chosen by the crew...
...there are times when Cavett is just plain flummoxed. Not long ago, Guest Rock Hudson walked onstage, confessed amiably that he was a boring conversationalist and then proceeded to prove it. At one point, Cavett desperately started a sprightly game of twenty questions, but Rock couldn't get the hang...
...right things" behind their names and other basic American middle class values, as well as those particular perversions with which blacks have buttressed those values, such as an internal pecking order based on color-the whiter the righter. Williams says that "King himself apparently had some color hang-up... Of King's personal attitude towards women with dark skin, Person B (Williams does not further identify this source) told me: 'Martin often said that he was willing to fight and die for black people, but was damned if he could see anything pretty in a black woman...
Pictures of Nasser continue to hang in Egypt's public buildings. Sadat soon began to develop his own style, however. Nasser had worked only in the Kubbeh Republican Palace on the outskirts of Cairo; Sadat also opened up the older, ornate Abdine Palace down town, which had belonged to Farouk. He also holds occasional meetings in a suite of the new Cairo-Sheraton Hotel, a 23-story building that is now the tallest in Cairo. Nasser was a restless ball of energy who could work a 20-hour day. Sadat works at a less frenetic pace. He prefers to spend...
Under the stress of trying to hang on to East Bengal, the West Pakistanis' old obsessive hatred of the Indians has flared up again. The federal government has completely sealed off West Pakistan from outside reports about the repressive army crackdown in East Pakistan. Denied reliable reporting, West Pakistanis tend to view the conflict as a sinister Indian plot to dismember their country. India has remained nominally neutral, but it has in fact given Bengali rebels a haven...