Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continued proseprity. Only after continued and repeated protests was the band able to secure even a limited number of complementary tickets for dates, although other bands in the Ivy League have long had them. When Cornell's band came to Harvard, each man was given an allowence for overnight expenses and food. A Harvard bandsman attends out of town and he's pretty much on his own resources, and has to endure long bus rides to avoid overnight trips. These bus rides were sometimes revved by "raids" on various girls schools (i.e., unannounced concerts usually at pre-dawn hours, though...
...manifestations of a U.S. phenomenon: the resurgence of ultraconservative antiCommunism. Hundreds of groups and subgroups-with such names as Project Alert, Americans for Constitutional Action, Survival U.S.A. and Crusade for American ism-have popped up across the U.S., in some cases springing from nothing to several thousand members almost overnight. More than 100 anti-Communist study groups are being conducted in Dallas alone. Because their membership is sometimes secret and usually heavily interchangeable with other groups, no sure estimate of their strength is possible...
...1870s or the floods and famines of the 1920s, when millions starved. This is, rather, a rationed, regimented hunger that signifies more than China's traditional struggle for survival. It symbolizes the miscarriage of the most massive social experiment ever undertaken-the Communist attempt to transform China overnight from the most impoverished country in the world into a major industrial
...commodious fiber-glass creation driven by a 4-h.p. motor, will hold two adults, two kids, and lots of groceries. It will go 40 miles at a safe-and-sane 35 m.p.h. on its small boat-trailer-size wheels, and its eight 6-volt batteries may be recharged overnight simply by plugging the whole thing into the garage socket. The cost of operation (including depreciation on the car itself) is estimated by Stuart to be around 4? a mile, as opposed to about 8? a mile for the standard gasoline compact...
...also reported at the time that Watson had imposed the ban because of the complaints of a prominent Boston woman who objected to her daughter traveling overnight on the bus with a member of the band...