Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue on campus incited more than 4000 students to riot and brought out the Cambridge police with tear gas bombs. But the two-day long protest was against changing the diplomas from Latin to English; the real-world problems of civil rights and military involvement raged with nary a mention in the Yard. News of Freedom Rider arrests, fighting in Laos, and arms control was virtually ignored as the class concentrated on achieving an unprecedented number of honors degrees...
Some modern moms and dads--not to mention doting grandparents--are shelling out large sums for the top-of-the-line trappings of babyhood. At least a few infants are sleeping in 24-karat-gold-plated cribs, which Lewis of London, a New York City-based chain, sells for $1,995. Clown, a children's store in Chicago, offers a $42 sterling-silver toothbrush. And thousands of tots are being wheeled around in sleek Aprica strollers from Japan, which cost...
...U.S.S. Missouri, "Mighty Mo," was returning from retirement. In emotional ceremonies on a sun-drenched day in San Francisco Bay, the ship was "brought alive" by her crew of 1,600 before an audience of 12,000 dignitaries and guests. The mere mention of the ship summons echoes from the remembered past. On her bleached teak decks, Supreme Allied Commander General Douglas MacArthur had accepted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese from Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu...
...ballot and which was written on official Board stationary, purportedly exists merely to "inform" alums of the unusual nature of this year's Overseers election, an election in which three candidates are actively campaigning in favor of divestiture. Regardless of the letter's lack of ehtics (not to mention the insult to the intelligence of Harvard/Radcliffe alums), I find President Bok's statement in itself highly offensive and misleading...
...dump in his backyard. The Baby Boomers remain exceedingly leery of conventional politicians. Though Eugene McCarthy's "children's crusade" helped speed Lyndon Johnson's departure from the White House in 1969, the slow wind down of the Viet Nam War and the depressing revelations of Watergate, not to mention images of assassinated heroes burned into their brainpans by TV, turned off many Baby Boomers to politics just as they were reaching voting age. Voter participation among Baby Boomers remained well below the national average into the 1980s and only caught up in the presidential election...