Word: joining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Skocpol announces that she has given herself a five-year deadline to decide whether to join the Harvard Faculty...
...stood the can on its end and smashed his head squarely on its top. As the metal sides of the container burst, beer flew all over the room. Life in the fraternity basement, despite its lack of class, had a certain primitive charm. I decided I would probably join the house in the spring; most of the people there knew how to have a good time...
...their academic lives. In the middle of a hockey game, a student skated out onto the ice dressed as an Indian (the Dartmouth symbol which was thrown out by the administration because it was offensive to Native Americans on campus). The crowd went wild. The administration, however didn't join the cheering. They suspended the student, then removed the suspension and imposed a strange penalty; the student had to take a Native American student to lunch every week for a year...
...during the Viet Nam War or the Iranian hostage crisis. At the same time, Americans just scraping by have sometimes felt truculently "good about America" at moments when the upper middle class was despairing. Today many Americans are in deep economic distress, and it is difficult for them to join in the feeling that the U.S. has suddenly become a coast-to-coast celebration...
...every morning, his mother regally journeyed from the palace to campaign for an opposition party. In the southern town of Madhuranthakam, a disgruntled politician, who had been refused a place on the party ticket by the Prime Minister, plunged the local election into chaos by persuading 84 people to join him in running as independent candidates. Having somehow been appeased, however, the malcontent withdrew from the race and the 84 others followed his example. And in the impoverished northern backwater of Amethi, where Prime Minister Gandhi was pitted against Maneka Gandhi, the widow of his younger brother Sanjay, sleepy villages...