Word: pt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June 4, it was all over: the last meal in the Union, the exam, the last of "freshman adjustment," the last of life in the Yard, the last of PT, and the last of some unforgetable experiences. It was also the beginning of tutorial, slumps, more exams, House life, varsity and interhouse athletics, participation in extra-curricular affairs, and more enlightenment...
...statesman proposed the Marshall Plan of postwar aid: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos." For his third offering, March had planned to read Ernest Hemingway's short story, The Killers. But as tribute to World War II PT-boat Hero Kennedy, Widow Mary Hemingway had dug through a bank vault of her husband's unpublished manuscripts, come up with a chapter from a novel about a young American who fought Nazi submarines from a fishing boat. It began: "The wind had blown heavily for more than fifty...
Here is a conservative's reply to the song PT 109 [April 6]: He came into office 'bout a year ago, And started spend'n money just as fast as it would go He printed lots of dollars to up the nation's debt, And while the bills were dry'n, said, "I ain't through yet." Big John...
...five battalions of helicopters and seaborne marines, equipped with napalm bombs, heavy artillery, and Ontos (the latest armored antitank vehicles). After the beach had been captured in a deafening final act, the President exclaimed: "Isn't that terrific!" Later, as he boarded his Washington-bound jet, the erstwhile PT-boat commander had some heartfelt parting words: "As we leave this base today, we are prouder than ever that we are citizens of the United States and supporters of these men who serve us so well...
...PT 109 was gone, but Kennedy