Word: present
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry Cabot Lodge '24 and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, during the '50s certainly were as much the "feel-good" administrators as our present leaders are, except they thought that the best way for government to meet that modest mission was to be a stabilizing influence. One should not forget that it was Eisenhower who first noted and tagged the "military-industrial complex," while it was Reagan, who, through the well-charted link of his Cabinet officials to Bectel, arms merchant to the Middle East, is now famous for institutionalizing that fearsome coalition...
Seven days before Christmas and the Harvard hockey team already has its present: a perfect record...
...Harvard players don't have to worry about that now. It's winter break. It's time to go home, to heal, to relax. Eleven and Oh. A nice present...
...have direct negative bearing upon their ability to perform their duties. No such caveat applies in this case. Very few council members belong to no other organizations. No one has the right to pass judgement upon the merit of their membership in these organizations. The fact that at the present time it is considered both fun and politically correct to bash the final clubs is no excuse. The political and social climate here is not static, and what is popular today may be unpopular tomorrow. What is to prevent judgements based upon other controversial issues, such as religious beliefs...
...attacked in print, on the radio and on television. At the hockey games, I was derided on the electronic scoreboard, the subject of abusive chants by the 6000 fans present and the object of a banner reading, "Nick Wurf is uncouth...