Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list went up last week on the bulletin board at the Broadway Street fire station, the main voting precinct for students. The list is a special supplement to the master list of registered voters, and it contains the names of over 500 students who have registered to vote in tomorrow's election...
Long brings some unique gifts to his role. At 59, he has been in the Senate for just under half of his life (29 years) and is a master of its parliamentary maz es. His intellectual powers are impressive ?he can deliver a brilliant 30-minute speech after just five minutes of briefing ?and his homespun metaphors cut right through economic obfuscation. Pressed by Senate liberals on tax reform last year, Long responded with a scathing definition: "Tax reform means 'Don't tax you, don't tax me. Tax that fellow behind the tree.' " In the Senate club...
...Leverett House Committee held an emergency meeting on Wednesday night and recommended that a 24-hour guard be posted in the tower area. In the wake of the meeting, Kenneth R. Andrews, master of Leverett, arranged for the police department to station an additional student security guard near the tower...
...same name into a spectacle. The audience will begin the play, proceeding with the actors out of the bowels of Adams House, pass hecklers on the Lampoon steps, cross Mount Auburn Street where traffic will be halted by the Harvard police and to the tower of Lowell House where Master Bossert will crown the new czar. Then, in an atmosphere perhaps even more mysterious, the silent procession of audience and actors will return, passing by candlelight through the darkened halls of Adams underground tunnel. This prelude is only the beginning of the surprises that producer-director Peter Sellars '80 claims...
...President does tend to consider issues one by one. A senior Administration official asserts: "Although he's a very fast learner, he doesn't move easily from one concept to another. You can open one subject, and he'll quickly have it mastered. Then he'll master a second one. But he often doesn't see the relationship between one and another, despite a really first-class mind." It is also true that Carter has committed himself to seemingly incompatible economic goals: a 4.75% unemployment rate, a 4% inflation rate and a balanced budget...