Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Swarthmore, and a girl in high school, has settled contentedly in Amherst. Although his teaching duties require him to remain in Cambridge during most of the week, he returns home each weekend, because, as he explains, after living on the banks of four rivers, the Charles, the Potomac, the Mississippi, and the Connecticut, he has concluded with characteristic Yankee provincialism that he likes living near the Connecticut River the best "because it divides the United States into two parts, the East and the West...
...championship; Oct. 18, Greater Boston Dinghy Championship and Freshman Octagonal; Oct. 25, Pentagonal Rally at Brown; Oct. 31, Freshman individual crew championship; Nov. 8, NEISA invitational; Nov. 14-15, NEISA Team racing Championships; Nov. 21-22, Middle Atlantic Fall Regatta; Nov. 27-29, Midwest Thanksgiving regatta; Dec. 12-13, Potomac Frostbite regatta...
...else to pin their hopes on and the exaggerated fears of Europeans who thought that they would not be allowed to settle their own destinies rested on a false premise. The U.S. has no desire and no intention of sitting down with Khrushchev in a new Yalta on the Potomac, disposing of one crisis after another in a grand "world settlement." The U.S. is fully aware that if it did so, it would only alienate its most valued friends; furthermore, anything negotiated would also require U.S. Senate approval. Such a deal is simply not in the cards. What...
...duty in the G.I. mess hall at fancy-pants Fort Myer, Va., just across the Potomac from Washington, Pfc. Andrew God Jr. was supposed to be peeling potatoes. But like many a soldier before him on many another potato pile, Soldier God, a Detroit architect before the draft caught him, was fairly hacking the daylights out of the spuds, so his mess sergeant reported him for goofing off. Sent up before Captain Thomas Woods, his commanding officer, for disciplinary action, Pfc. God refused a company-punishment sentence of two hours of hard labor every day for 14 days, demanded...
...built on a New England, private-school basis, the student body was more homogenous than it is today. '59 was more geographically diversified than any class preceding it. '59 contained a decreased number of New Englanders, but an increased number from west of the Appalachians and south of the Potomac...