Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another reason for the slowness is that the organizers slacked off during Christmas vacation and exam period after a concerted drive in the fall. "If you stir up a lot of enthusiasm and then desert for a few weeks, you kill morale," Raudenbush said. "You've got to keep at it." Apparently impressed by the Jewish Memorial success, the teamsters recently asked SDS Labor Committee to help them organize insurance workers. The Committee declined in order to devote themselves entirely to hospital organizing...
...midafternoon, the dazed student begins to show fatigue. At that point, another instructor joins in, grills him on the day's words. In this "breakdown" period, the student may rebel, laugh, refuse to talk, curse his tormentor-but it is a time, insist the teachers, in which he can almost unconsciously absorb the toughest problem of a new language, such as complex tenses. The day ends at 6 p.m., after a 20-minute review. Then the student takes home two more hours' worth of reading and composition assignments...
...prospered on high world copper prices and swelling U.S. demand. Through a nearly strike-free year, the company's sales surged to ten figures ($1.2 billion) for the first time, while earnings swelled by 67% to $132 million. In the fourth quarter, profits rose 116% over the same period...
...Against Rutgers last Friday, Henjyoji pulled a third-period pin; Naylor got one at 1:13. Harvard won that one. 19-17, on the extra points provided by the pins...
...down and near-pin points in big decisions, including the 5-2 win over Cornell's co-captain, Bob Stock. Stock had more than a head on Naylor in that match, but proved a set-up for the lateral drop. The resulting take-down, near-pin in the first period decided Naylor's stunning upset...