Word: recent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Upheaval the College has gone through his Spring, but as the Johnson-era generation of college students moves into the professional schools it carries with it the seeds of dissatisfaction with society as a whole, and particularly with the institutions which most directly affect students. Law School faculty, recent alumni, and even third-year students assert unanimously that the place has changed beyond recognition over the last few years...
...events, and winning four. Richie Szaro continued his astounding javelin performances, threw the spear 238 ft. 5 in. Saturday, shattering an 11-year-old Heps record. Bob Galliers got off the best long jump of his career, winning with a leap of 24 feet, one of the longest in recent years for Harvard...
...British Parliament, dismisses him as "just another squire." A student worker in civil rights grumbled that Chichester-Clark was "a hell of a name to paint on a banner." But the new man promises to provide reporters with choice copy. When a U.S. newsman asked if the recent riots were bad for tourism, Chichester-Clark reportedly replied: "I don't see why they should be. Anyway, why would an American tourist even in the best of times want to visit Northern Ireland...
Even so, the pace of profit growth is slowing. In the third quarter of 1968, earnings had jumped by 14%. For the past two quarters, the gain has been just over 7%. The more recent results suggest that taxes and costs are overtaking businessmen's efforts to keep up profit margins-now roughly a nickel on every dollar of sales-by raising prices or increasing efficiency...
...much pain a person can take. After a certain point, you must either scream your lungs out or go crazy. Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band pushes both its characters and its audience within inches of that breaking point. It is one of the mammoth achievements in recent American theatrical history...