Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of North China's people accepted the Red threat with wizened calm. A typical point of view was shown by a note on the bulletin board of a club in Tangshan, center of the richest coal-mining region in all Nationalist China. The note read:"For sale-Hawaiian guitar, on view at the club. Keep your spirits up by playing the above. (Signed) Honorable Secretary...
...will learn that they are "dates" at Brown, but "drags" at Annapolis, that crew-cut Harvard men expect them to know what "catching a crab" means, and that at Dartmouth there are only three seasons: before, during and after winter. For girls on their way to Annapolis or West Point, Weekend gives full details on military protocol, and how to distinguish cadet first classmen by the stripes on their sleeves from the lowlier "cows" or "yearlings" (at the Point "You walk everywhere, spend your own money, and half the time you're not with your escort...
...have a girl who laps up everything in sight"), and other forms of helplessness ("Don't depend on your host to look up trains"). They are also advised that the paint on Yale Bowl benches rubs off, and that "if you ever want to give a [West Point] plebe anything, bring him food, for he is always hungry...
...Task. Last fortnight, in the operating room, Elizabeth was given only local anesthesia; she had to guide Surgeon Penfield's hands by telling him of her sensations. At one point she said: "I feel as though my left hand were moving but it isn't moving." During the eight-hour operation the surgeons took out about two square inches of damaged brain...
...campus rally last week, California's Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf said he'd settle for a one-point victory. Some of the fans were sure that Pappy was just having his little joke. True, Stanford was the traditional big rival, but Stanford had been beaten five times already this season...