Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first pair of skates the Christmas he was four; by day's end, he was maneuvering on his own. "From then on," he recalls, "I went back every day and skated until I was exhausted. I would get up in the morning and put on the porridge pot, then go out to skate until breakfast was ready. I used to skate all morning and afternoon, and only come home for meals. After dinner, I always went out again, and Mum would have to send my sisters out to bring me home...
Marijuana, creeping across college campuses a lot faster than ivy, has sprouted at the U.S. Naval Academy. As at all schools, it is strictly forbidden at Annapolis. But last week Rear Admiral Draper L. Kauffman, the academy's superintendent, dismissed 13 midshipmen who had admitted to smoking pot in a dormitory room of Bancroft Hall. It was the second drug scandal to hit Annapolis: four middies were dismissed last June for using marijuana...
...latest pot problem surfaced when a dozen of the smokers' fellow midshipmen became aware of the offense, decided to report to Annapolis authorities. They did so despite the fact that the school's honor code, unlike those at the Air Force Academy and West Point, does not require students to report rule breaking by others. Nonetheless, most of the middies take pot seriously. "Drugs." explains Midshipman Maurice McNeil, "affect a man's judgment-and judgment is the big thing with a man in service...
...touch with the changing political style that he did not even suspect a dangerous parallel when he saw one-the American Revolution. While Marie Antoinette gushed about "our good republicans, our good Americans," Louis, it is said, made a gift of a Sevres chamber pot with Benjamin Franklin's likeness on the base...
Inside the Clubhouse when Miss Lansbury received an award plaque and replica of the famous Hasty Pudding Pot, she stammered "I'm so charmed I'm absolutely spitless...