Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Jack Johnson emerged from the black boxing circuit in 1910 to fight Tommy Burns for the heavyweight title, it was only twenty years after the general acceptance of Queensbury rules: the sport was still developing out of its rudimentary stages, and remained a popular outlet for urban athletes from...
Most Americans, of course, are under the casual impression that their government has been deescalating the war, seeking to leave Vietnam, in fact, ever since the opening of the talks in Paris in March of that year. But the apparent de-escalation has amounted merely to a clever shift in...
Some Houses have been overcrowded for 25 years. Although most Houses were occupied by the military during World War H, Lowell and Dunster were not. After the war, most students applied to these Houses, and they have remained overcrowded since then.
For those young Americans who are detouring from the overcrowded highways of Western Europe this summer to investigate the nations of the East, the incident is typical. Few have any liking for Soviet-style Communism. But generally they are left of center in their politics and critical of American values...
Despite the swift pace of revival, misery has by no means been banished from the East Central State. Hospitals are short-staffed and overcrowded. Some roads ripped up to slow Nigerian armored cars have not been repaired. Ex-soldiers, known as "vacuum cleaners" because they are so thorough, roam the...