Word: iceberg
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...them improbable tales of white-tie-and-tails lifeboat heroism. The name Titanic acquired a musical aura, a smokey, well-monied air of drama and romance that later sold countless books and a pair of slick Hollywood tearjerkers to an easily-impressed public. A chance meeting between an iceberg and a ship's hull one chilly night in the North Atlantic thus made more than a few fortunes for quick-moving authors and editors--the right people soon found they could make a lot of money out of the Titanic...
...Dartmouth was up next, and Curtis Welling, who already has a law degree, gesticulated in his best courtroom manner as he defended its rather undefined proposal to "establish a long-range planning committee." Judge Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. of Forbes magazine looked unimpressed: "Your ship has hit an economic iceberg, and you are recommending more suggestion boxes for the passengers...
...discovery of illegal activity by the North Koreans in Scandinavia may be only the iceberg's tip. Five months ago in Cairo, Egyptian officials caught two North Korean diplomats with 400 kilos of hashish in their luggage. A North Korean official assigned to Malaysia has also been recalled after dealing in smuggled goods...
Some have gone far toward the North Pole, to invade the haunts of the iceberg with their inquisitive and unsparing eyes-some have gone to the far West, where Nature plays with the illimitable and grand-some have become tropically mad, and are pursuing a sketch up and down the Cordilleras, through Central America and down the Andes. If such is the spirit and persistency of American art, we may well promise ourselves good things for the future...
...feelings for The Crimson proceed along much the same lines. One of Al's favorite jokes is to rename the Crime "the Harvard Iceberg" on account of what he perceives as a lack of any humor on the part of the paper. More than once he has offered a resolution to rename Plympton St. "Lampoon Avenue" in honor of the "really important" publication that abuts that road. And when Al took out a political ad in last year's election supplement, by chance he discovered a "plot" to hijack all of that morning's Crimsons. After alerting the business staff...