Word: mined
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wiry physique (she was given an oversize bra), her unorthodox attire and her one-word name (suggested new last names: "Cropper" or "of the Pot"). Sallied Cher: "I don't know what the other recipients did with their pots, but I'm going to make an earring out of mine...
...former Viet Nam combat officer, Captain H. Daniel Embree, demonstrate how easily a grenade could be turned into a land mine by a civilian "irregular." Similar booby traps, said Embree, "routinely" caused two casualties a day when his unit was on the move. This testimony, contended CBS Attorney David Boies, proved that McChristian and others were right to insist on including the so-called self-defense-force irregulars in the official enemy-troop estimate, or "order of battle...
...course it would be wrong to focus so exclusively on the political tenor of what is now largely an apolitical campus. There are other aspects of insularity as well, and these have been well documented. Predecessors of mine have filled this page in years past with reams of statistics suggesting the narrow career-minded focus of most Harvard students, and they are largely correct. It's not so much that I object to my classmates' overwhelming decision to pursue law, business, or medicine--all worthwhile professions--as to the unthinking way in which many seem to hop on the assembly...
...letter to a friend in Cambridge, Svetlana complained, "With this precious, long-legged and dumb-headed daughter of mine I'm tied hand and foot. She goes back to school on Sunday, THANK GOD! When she's with me, I miss more than ever my Katya and Osia (her children in the Soviet Union). They are so nice, and she (Olga) is a fool, spoiled rotten...
Gerald Boucher of South Hadley. Mass., died from rejection of his second heart after doctors at the Harvard's affiliated Brigham and woman's Hospital and the donor mine himm a new leave on life to mouths earlier...