Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brightly colored beads, they returned with some shocking snippets of overheard conversation. As one of the main floats in the Mardi Gras procession passed by, with black men and women dressed as slaves spinning batons and running alongside the float, one well-dressed, slightly inebriated New Orleans citizen was heard to remark, "They really do look like monkeys, don't they?" The remark at first stunned the Harvard visitors, but as the three-day festivities went on and more comments expressing similar attitudes toward New Orleans blacks were heard, the students fancied themselves as anthropologists visiting a foreign land...
...heard my mother saying she felt sorry for the families of the miners. I feel sorry for them, too. I hope the men who got hurt get better. I'm sure they will. My father has called in doctors from Lexington. He wants the best doctors in all of Kentucky for those miners. Daddy says it was the miners' fault; they get careless, and the next thing you know, there's an explosion. It's too bad. I guess there are a lot of kids who are praying hard for their fathers. I wish God was nice to everyone...
...Crimson captain Nancy Cooper typified Harvard's struggles throughout the meet. Five minutes into her final bout, a marathon struggle against Wellesley's Aimee Christian, teammate Debbie Sze shouted to Cooper from the sideline, "Fence your own game." Cooper revealed later that all she could think of when she heard Sze's encouragement was "I don't remember what my game...
...billion is "a tight budget"? Only a $60.6 billion deficit? In 1959 President Eisenhower presented our first $100 billion budget; people were outraged. Now, hardly a whimper is heard as Jimmy Carter quintuples that expenditure...
February is a month for honoring great lecturers. Earlier this week we celebrated the birthday of Abe Lincoln, a great hit on the lecture circuit in his heyday. No one who heard it ever forgot his Gettysburg Address. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," he said. Well, the thought was a good one, though somewhat optimistic...