Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within an hour, Radio Ethiopia announced that the nation was no longer under Haile Selassie's "oppressive rule." Throughout the day, spokesmen for the coordinating committee explained that the military had been forced to depose the monarch because he was too old and weak, both physically and mentally. Further, Haile Selassie was charged with committing crimes against the Ethiopian people and with refusing to take measures that might have alleviated the harsh famine in northern Ethiopia, which has so far taken an estimated 100,000 lives...
...morning last winter in the midst of the season's greatest snowfall, a lone figure trudged down Plympton St. and into The Crimson building. Placing his overstuffed briefcase in the downstairs office, the man turned up his collar and announced he would return after running several errands. An hour later, Robert Fuller Duncan '12 snatched up his beaten leather bag, climbed three flights of stairs and spent the rest of the morning in a tiny, cluttered office politely cajoling former Crimson editors into contributing money for a new press. The former Crimson president was 84 years old, but the undergraduates...
There is no reason to shop at the Store 24 (in the Square next to the Harvard Square Theatre)--unless you happen to be into shopping at 3 a.m. or some other freakish hour. Then, at least, you probably are getting the best bargains of any stores open. The atmosphere at Store 24 is, well, different from most grocery stores. From the street you expect to hear Indian snake charmers music--but what do you want...
...greasy spoons"--low-budget, fast food places. The food in these establishments is generally cheap, and you usually get what you pay for. The decor in most is hokey and the scene raunchy, but when you are going out of your mind for something to eat at some weird hour of the day, or, if you are just plain sick of eating dining hall food, keep them in mind...
...swarms of undergraduates besieged the Yard to attend the Gabriellesque shriek. None was forthcoming, and perched on a Wigglesworth stoop, Young smiled and grunted his satisfaction. By next week, however, Young's plan was torpedoed by hordes of freshman imitators who clambered up among the gargoyles at the appointed hour, to wreak their own vocal havoc. Another crisis was at hand, as the oral abominations of the mimics were now desolating the Yard and the tell-tale grade-point average was dipping again. On a cold night, again at 3:30 a.m., Young once more confronted the erstwhile howler...