Word: larking
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...partly a springtime lark, partly a new upwelling of the ras le bol (fed up) spirit that turned French campuses into battlefields in the anarchic days of May 1968. With a spontaneity and speed that startled even their left-wing organizers, high school students all over France poured out of their classrooms last week to vent their rage against a new draft law. In Paris, where all but five of the city's 60 lycées were shut down, some 80,000 teen-age boys and girls defied a government ban to gather on the Left Bank...
...Radcliffe Sailing team lost to MIT last Saturday as skipper Barb Grant and crewman Ann Hoffner had difficulty with MIT's new Lark Sloops...
...acquired the new sloops at the beginning of last summer, and has been practicing in them for a long time. Neither Radcliffe nor B.U. had sailed in the Lark Sloops until last weekend's competition...
Right from the start, it was a bad day for the Radcliffe squad. Sailing in Lark sloops on the Mystic Lakes Course at Tufts, the 'Cliffe sailors couldn't seem to get untracked...
...senior. In 1966, showing early promise as a distance swimmer, Spitz came within .2 seconds of breaking the world record in the 1,500-yd. freestyle and qualified for the A.A.U. National Championships in Lincoln, Neb. Spitz remembers: "I had two days off so I decided as a lark to swim in both the 100-and 200-yd. butterfly just to keep busy." He won the 100, but his exultation and subsequent letdown cost him the next three events...