Word: linens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone really let loose at my toga party. It's as though all that frivolity and all that linen seem to inject a kind of truth serum into the otherwise close-mouthed athletic celebrities at Harvard. I know I really shouldn't, but I've just got to let you in on some of the deep dark secrets they told...
...shots came from behind should lay to rest the theory that another gunman, perhaps firing from a grassy knoll in front of the car, was involved in the assassination. But it is unlikely even now that many Americans, deeply skeptical about official pronouncements and constantly confronted by the dirty linen of the CIA and FBI, will give up their notions of a conspiracy. Showing there was no second gunman, as Connally pointed out, posed a difficult problem: How do you prove a negative...
There was every indication that the conclave would be complex, difficult and possibly protracted. One Italian Cardinal who has been mentioned as a candidate joked that he was taking into the conclave "enough personal linen to last two months." Even as the first wave of Cardinals assembled, rumors drifted out of the Vatican of heated arguments, particularly over Paul's 1975 conclave decree, which directed that Cardinals age 80 and over could not vote for the new Pope. Among the 15 octogenarians thus excluded, several were trying to overturn the rule, in particular the archconservative Curialist Alfredo Ottaviani...
...students must vacate dormitories by 2 p.m., August 19. Keys should be returned to the custodian and linen to the linen deposits. All students must return keys and linen as well as leave their rooms in a clean condition in order to have the $25 deposit returned in September. The Freshman Union will close after dinner on Friday. Any student leaving early should see their proctor...
...bottles for 118 drugs carried by 18th century battlefield medics, as well as all the drugs-except opium-which he had to simulate. At Monmouth, he put on his 18th century glasses but apologized for wearing modern shoes. He also brought along his colonial desk, with quill pen and linen paper...