Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young men of the 2,200-ton U.S. destroyer Maddox, patrol duty in Tonkin seemed as ho-hum and hum drum as duty on any of a hundred other routine tin-can patrols. In this case, the mission of the Maddox was mainly to show the U.S. flag and keep a casual lookout for Communist gun runners or seaborne Red guerrilla cadres. Occasionally the Maddox would slip up to within 13 miles of the Communist mainland, set her radar to sniffing the coast. But the real challenge to her sailors was to stay awake on lonely watches. Few of them...
...when Soviet pressures on Berlin brought the cold war near the boiling point, Abrams commanded the U.S.'s key 3rd Armored Division in West Germany. In 1962 Abrams returned to the U.S. as Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Military Operations for Civil Affairs. The title sounded ho-hum, but the job was far from that. When race riots broke out on the Ole Miss cam pus in Oxford that fall, Abrams sped to take command of the troops that had been alerted there. He did the same in the bloody Birmingham riots of May 1963, in constant contact...
...that, rather than the survey-like exposure to the high points of Western tradition which the Redbook proposed, the focus of General Education in the Humanities and Social Sciences should be upon "an acquaintance with themes." More than anything else, this is a recognition and acceptance of what elementary Hum's and Soc Sci's are now doing...
Also running under Harvard aegis was Erich W. Segal '58, former Hum 2 section man and now a resident tutor in Dunster House. His time was 2:56.30, which only three years ago would have won a medal. Segal runs this race every year...
...aspirations that accompanied African independence were great indeed and, to an extent, some of them have been realized. From Dakar to Dar es Salaam, gleaming office buildings rise where rust-roofed shantytowns once stood. Hydroelectric dams now hum where only the crocodile hunter passed ten years ago. Africans who a short time ago ran drugstores or taught elementary school debate eloquently with their former colonial rulers in the United Nations, or struggle manfully with the problems of nonalignment in a world increasingly complicated by shifts of temperature in the cold...