Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nelson Ortiz, 23, just finished a three-year volunteer hitch in the Army-infantry, heavy weapons-and was heading home to see his family in the western town of Afiasco. His plans? "I'm going back to college, going to study sociology." Independence...
...After only four weeks of instruction, the plucky Mrs. Berman, who is president of the nonprofit National Association of Patients on Hemodialysis and Transplantation Inc. (N.A.P.H.T.), headed West with her 24-lb. suitcase kidney and 15 Ibs. of accessories (including container and dialyzing mix). The machine worked without a hitch. She dialyzed five times-in motel rooms and even on a friend's backyard patio...
There are only three hitches in this wonderful scheme of things. The first one is Princeton, the second one is Brown, and the third one is Yale. And if you happen to think that Penn represents a bona fide hitch, then make it four...
...gardeners. But back home, England reeled under postwar debts and shortages. Coal was scarce, and a bottle of liquor cost $35. For reasons as much financial as idealistic, the Labor government of Clement Attlee was determined to drop the white man's burden. But there was a hitch: the bloodbath following England's exit threatened to be worse than the one that would occur if she stayed...
...hitch to any plan is that department chairmen within grad schools ultimately admit whom they want. If the proposals are to work, McKinney says, everyone must fall into line and play an active role in recruitment...