Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...calf was really bad news, but here was a right turn. I could tell that I had run 100 yards and then turn left for the final 100. So I poured it on and my calf got all better. No one was around me so I coudn't make any attempts to pass to thrill the bigger crowd. Nor could I be passed...
Then a problem. I started getting a sharp pain in my left calf every few steps. At last, I thought, I'm doomed. But the pain was bearable. At about that time the first Harvard runner was crossing the finish line--John Heyburn, 101st...
Last 25 yards, still the noise. I had run for hours and only a handful of seconds were left. It ended. Some official put a horse blanket over me and walked me to the Pru escalator and asked me if I was all right. I gave him the reassuring nod and went up the escalator. More people clapping at the top, and I even smiled. They were nice people; why can't everyone be like that...
After I was refused entry to the meeting by the President, I left University Hall. Walking away from the building, I came upon Asst. Dean Epps, and explained the situation to him. He offered to intercede on my behalf. We walked back to University Hall, and transmitted it to Mr. William Bentick-Smith, the Administrative Assistant to the President, who was now chairing the meeting since President Pusey had left. After some discussion, and after I had talked with a member of my organization who was attend the meeting in another capacity, I was allowed into the room. I informed...
...strike fashions, Krackerjacks (another store) has begun selling red armbands at 25c apiece. Red armbands started as symbol of support for SDS's position last Friday. Aside from their left-associated color, they have that frayed appearance that most revolutionaries usually think of themselves as having. Probably derived from tying a string around your finger to remember something, they are most important for the sense of participation they give the people who wear them. And the importance of feeling participation can't be overrated in something like a strike...