Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lot of people are killed, and you have the satisfaction of knowing that if you don't like someone in the cast he'll probably be dead inside of a quarter of an hour. Still, after 90 minutes of slaughter, when the Indian chief makes a sign like Dave Garroway's and says, "No more killing, there has been enough bloodshed," you may regret that one or two more characters had not hit the Happy Hunting Ground before Bardot and Connery ride into the sunset...
They hastened to tell me that they had both decided not even to apply to Harvard, they wanted to go to Yale so much. And Yale was every bit as good academically as Harvard, probably even better, and there was no question but that a lot of guys really missed out accepting Harvard over Yale. They were frantic in their assurances, and I got the first taste of the Yale paranoia about Harvard that I was to keep running into for the next two days...
Through an extra lot of smiling and a great deal of sympathy for a tale of a Harvard rejection I managed an invitation to luncheon at a Secret Society--like a Harvard Final Club but even crustier and more archaic. The Secret Societies are so secret that visitors are not even permitted inside the huge, windowless stone "tombs" that house them, and we had our lunch on the fourth floor of a nearby University administration building...
Extra Classes. Ending the strike still left the schools with a lot of lost time to make up. The Board of Education initially announced that the school day would be extended 45 minutes daily for 14 weeks. In addition, there would be ten days of extra classes carved out of vacation periods. Protests from teachers and students led officials to make the ten days optional. While the extra sessions cannot compensate for all the instruction time lost, they will provide enough overtime for teachers to recoup most of the pay lost during the strike...
...purposely holding them down. Ghetto residents generally believe that decentralization is a valid solution to the complex ills of the New York City schools. And the union's calculated attack on the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment was not likely to persuade many Negroes that they had a lot of friends among teachers...