Word: marooning
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...will go their separate ways, possibly on the bus home retelling just once more the tale they've told a 100 times already: and when its time to hit the crib they'll take off, neatly fold up, and tuck away the fondest memory they've every known--a maroon rowing shirt with a white Harvard...
Terry's only regret in leaving Phoenix was in having to leave behind his Custom Street Machine. "She was beautiful. A maroon falcon sprint jacked up in the back, with meats, and a 427 cu. in. hemi-under-glass mounted in the ashtray...
Treading the Line. Given to dark vested suits and subdued maroon ties, Waldheim is the very model of a Continental diplomat. He is immensely skilled in treading the delicate line of Austrian neutrality, and is known as an unusually hard worker. He is also rather autocratic and hot-tempered, and runs his staff with an iron hand. His chief hobby: collecting early 19th century glass. Waldheim's family is picture-perfect for his new public role. His wife Elisabeth ("Sissy") is justly renowned as a diplomatic hostess. Daughter Liselotte, 26, is a pretty U.N. civil servant in Geneva...
There is a final problem that the disruption raises. Calculated to intensify concern over the war, it now threatens to maroon debate on the single issue of academic freedom. Those who oppose the war can not afford to return to the old attacks on the University: As the CRIMSON argued last fall, although the University does share a certain complicity in the war, the primary task at hand is to oppose the war on a national level. Similarly, those for whom academic freedom is an equally overwhelming concern would be foolish to mistake the disruption as an internal cancer that...
...least two years criticism on the Harvard CRIMSON, the University of Chicago Maroon, and at several Yale publications has been overwhelmingly 'Sarrisite.' And what Harvard and Chicago do today, less prestigious institutions can be presumed to do tomorrow...