Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tommy's Lunch, 49 Mount Auburn St. Tommy Stefanian, the big guy with the cigar who'll tell you to get your feet off the tables, has been on that block across from Quincy House for nearly 20 years selling dogs and burgers and his big seller, the cheese-steak sub. Probably the biggest single redeeming feature of Tommy's is that it is open until 2 a.m. and they make up take-outs up to almost the last minute. Tommy serves a standard line of sandwiches and drinks, and occasionally some Greek specialities--the stuffed grape leaves...
Elsie's, 71a Mount Auburn St. If one of your parents went to Harvard or Radcliffe then you've probably heard about Elsie's. The menu is again basically standard but leans toward the delicatessen side and at mealtimes it's SRO. It's really the classic of its type in the Square and for some reason seems to have a special place in the memories of alumni. The food is good and the prices are "competitive" if you don't mind standing...
...tensions mount in Southern Europe, Albanian warplanes drop nuclear bombs on Naples. Tel Aviv is destroyed by a nuclear attack from an unidentified country; Egyptian atomic bombs devastate London and Washington; China, the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Britain are drawn into war. Soon mushroom clouds cover nearly the entire planet...
...mount the stairs to your room don't be surprised if some stranger says hello to you by name. He's probably your proctor or advisor who's memorized the names and faces of all his wards. He's also probably responsible for your living in that particular dorm with those particular roommates...
...Randolph would declare for King James if only the King would then make nun comfortable in the office of attorney general"). The diarist, it develops, had the rare good luck to overhear a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Colonel George Washington and Prince Charles in which the master of Mount Vernon, although not hostile, remained uncharmed and uncommitted. Samuel Johnson is found to have made an otherwise unnoticed trip to the New World, and Patrick Henry and Tom Paine are implicated in a plot to assassinate Bonnie Prince Charlie...