Word: pells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...existing contracts with the Department of Defense and not entering into any new ones. It seemed not unreasonable to ask that Harvard refuse to allow the American military to train its students to murder Indochinese with rifles and cannon and bombs. We won a victory against ROTC. Col. Pell packed up and went back to the Pentagon; Shannon Hall is now a day-care center...
Beamed to millions of TV viewers in the U.S., Europe and the Far East, and covered by more than 500 journalists, the Thanksgiving Day classic in Norman, Okla., more than lived up to its billing. Minutes after the opening kickoff, Rodgers set the pell-mell pace for the day. Hauling in a punt, he stumbled, recovered, started to his right, cut to his left and then went lickety-split down the sidelines for a 72-yd. score. Oklahoma countered with a field goal, but then lost a fumble that led to another Nebraska touchdown The Sooners, using the Wishbone...
...James Allen of Alabama voted no, as expected. The tally clerk droned on down the list. At one point, early on, there were six for passage, two against. A few names later the score was six to six-and then it began to slide. The name of Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, an aristocratic internationalist, was called. Crisply, he announced: "No." Now the count stood at twelve for, 18 against...
Starting with a rough approximation of the root derived from the mathematically well-known Pell Equation, Dutka devised a special algorithm (mathematical procedure) that enabled a computer to refine that answer to an extraordinary degree. After 471 hours of computer time and billions upon billions of individual calculations, the electronic brain ticked off an answer that was correct to at least 1,000,082 digits...
...successful. Everyone was at least aware, and many were angry. Some protesters slashed tires, dented and even overturned cars. The group from Key Bridge retreated and snarled traffic in Georgetown's side streets with parked cars, overturned mailboxes, trash cans and broken glass. Rhode Island Senator, Claiborne Pell, opened the door of his Georgetown house, stood for a moment in his pajamas inhaling tear gas, and quickly retreated. Another man, neatly dressed in a business suit, stood in his doorway impassively cradling a rifle...