Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italy at the time of the Normandy landings and cheered the invasion news. Years after, a good friend of mine who was with the first wave on Omaha Beach told me, "I was seasick, cold and scared, to the point that I wanted to lie there and die. Then I got mad, not at the Germans but at my superiors for creating such a hopeless situation." This attitude prevailed in the enlisted ranks and was a key to moving the troops forward...
From there the mines were trans ported by ship to Pakistan's Makran coast. The CIA Afghans met the arms there and drove them to a rendezvous with the mujahedin in a desolate area near the Afghan border. The guerrillas took the arms away in a Soviet-made truck; when that vehicle broke down, they switched to camels. Upon arrival at the outskirts of Kabul, the mujahedin opened the boxes and carefully packed each mine in a mixture of camel dung, mud and straw-the mate rials that local peasants use to build walls. Finally, more than two weeks...
Rhonda L. Karol '84 was walking back from the library when we saw a group of students sarcastically singing "God Bless America." Laura A. Haight '84 remembers "getting drunk with a friend of mine who had never gotten drunk before. A bunch of us went around wearing black...
...lifetime interest of mine has been the exploration of learning styles. What has always fascinated me is the heterogeneity of people who gather here each September with their diverse personal and intellectual styles and how some Junes later they graduate with a common understanding. While each has his own individual modes of thinking, each also has something in common, which, on occasion, has referred to as the Harvard style...
...your letter, please tell me of courses that stretched your mind. I am willing to hear about failures; but frankly, I would much rather hear of successes. Since this is a continuing interest of mine, if you would prefer to send me your reactions after you have more perspective, that would be fine. Best wishes wherever you will be doing your analytical thinking and using your skills as a learner