Word: hitches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time Kissinger's entourage left Tunis for Cairo, apprehension was almost palpable if only because the airport serving the Egyptian capital was near the combat zone. But the midnight landing came off without a hitch, and Kissinger was engulfed in an excited crush of photographers. Security officers finally jammed him into a waiting limousine and whisked him to the palatial presidential suite at the Nile Hilton...
...committee has yet to formulate a job description for the position. Problems caused by the Harvard-Radcliffe athletics merger are creating the largest hitch in the resolution of the new coach's responsibilities...
...many other student gatherings (the Union at lunch, faculty sherries, etc.). The reason is that the bus, a goofy-looking vehicle, naturally attracts your sympathy if not your affection. Its novelty is an ice-breaker. The bus drivers may describe themselves as loners, but as any hitch-hiker who has been picked up by the king of the loners--the long-haul truck driver--can tell you, loners are often the most friendly people going. Jack, who knows me by my first name, is a jokester and friendly story-teller. Although I may look like a clown and invite razzing...
...affluent but over-schooled, over-technologized, overburdened young man cast from the best university like a body thrown from a car--which occurs on screen, believe it or not--into a landscape where society has eroded nature's richness. No one gives him directions. No one gives him a hitch. He trudges on and on, encountering symbol-people on the way--such as a loud, precocious little boy complaining because a card shark, that is, society, is giving him a bum deal...
While the University Administration pondered and juggled figures, other University-related actions went on without a hitch. Construction at various sites began on schedule and, despite the efforts of some students and faculty to "Save Hunt Hall," destruction went on as scheduled...