Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...customs. One is riots, called "Row-bottoms" after Joseph Rowbottom ('12), whose roommate was allegedly wont to start trouble by bellowing drunkenly from the street, "Rowbottom! Rowbottom!" The student guide still warns girls to "seek immediate shelter" when Rowbottoms strike; they must lock doors, douse lights and hide until the official all clear. Also looking increasingly archaic is the discriminatory system of fraternities, eleven of them Jewish and 25 gentile...
...steel products. At one ridiculous point, the British undersold the Belgians in Belgium-while the Belgians were underselling the British in Britain. Within the gentlemanly European Coal and Steel Community, where competition is supposedly regulated, secret rebates are given, and many steel firms keep two sets of books to hide the fact that they deliver 11,000 tons of steel for the price...
...Clean Haul. "The women are our biggest problem," complains one Washington, D.C., police inspector. "They will hide their purses under their desks, in typewriter wells and desk drawers. These are the first places a professional office thief looks." A female Washington employee of Air France was robbed twice in one day. Purses, wallets, postage stamps and petty cash are fair game, with office machines and TV sets running a bulky second. Occasionally, of course, the theft is an inside job, though most experts believe that the kleptomaniac junior exec and the light-fingered charwoman (a much-maligned breed...
...elephants wear green sneakers? A. To hide in the tall grass...
Once through with the Hell scene, however, the Players almost magically joined together to present their best performance of the summer. The first act, despite some judicious cutting by Everingham, dragged at times, and the opening of the second act, in the bandit's hide-out in the Sierra Nevadas, was too stiff and ludicrous. But in the third act, when all the unleashed forces seek and obtain resolution, the Players were smooth, polished, and sparkling. Etain O'Malley, who is not voluptuous enough to be the vamp she attempter earlier, was superb as she first disposed of one eager...