Word: haven
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...every night during Harvard Summer School, Thresky began to long for a little socializing with the better type of birds. Last August 18 he spread his great wings and hoisted himself off his perch. Shaking off a cluster of admiring Cambridge pigeons and starlings, he cruised down to New Haven and propositioned the Yale Record Owl regarding a joint junket through New York. The owl was at first a bit suspicious. "To woo?" she queried...
...Yale Daily News and its heeler organization, the Yale police force, sadistically continued their traditional suppression of freedom of the press Saturday. Editors of the OCD, who apparently did not feel physically competent to stop New Haven distribution of the CRIMSON, had the Yale police confiscate a few hundred copies of the regular Saturday edition...
While this elaborate defense was being organized, a couple of Crimeds threw some CRIMSON'S into the back seat of a Volkswagen and drove down to New Haven...
...emergency' is that it is unexpected; therefore it is not going to happen the way you are planning. So the first thing you do is to take all the plans off the top shelf and throw them out the window and start once more. But if you haven't been planning you can't start to work, intelligently at least...
...intent on allowing the fewest possible exceptions to the rule. Some months ago the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance sent one Harry ("Stopper") Corke its blanks to fill out, got them back with a note from Corke scribbled on the back: "I do not need these cards. I haven't worked for 14 months. I get my living by thieving." As credentials, he could and did cite 23 convictions, two turns in Dartmoor Prison, and the invention of the "jump-up"-an athletic hijacking technique accomplished by jumping from the hood of a moving car over the tail...