Word: ridded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LAST SPRING, despite the largest outpouring of student political sentiment in several years, the Harvard Corporation refused to divest itself of its holdings in companies operating in South Africa. It also declined to get rid of its stock in banks lending money to the Vorster regime, or even to sponsor shareholder resolutions urging companies to withdraw. The inspiring protests of the last week in April--a week that saw crowds of up to 3500 students united in protest--may have sputtered with the advent of reading period, but the issue is far from resolved...
...strikes. Career-minded women, like white-collar workers generally, tend to identify with management, or at least to believe they have more in common with their bosses than with the stereotyped hardhat. Says Fred Kroll, president of the Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steamship Clerks: "We have to get rid of the old baseball bat, T shirt, tattooed image...
Harvard tradition that obliquely involves Emerson is "Boats," a History course on oceanic exploration taught by a professor affectionately known as "Commodore" Perry. Legend has it that a student took the course (something of an easy rid) and wrote a very bogus paper on whales and whaling. Figuring that he would need to dress up his anemic effort a little, he pasted a whale, cut from a National Geographic, onto the front cover of the paper and handed...
...Soares' moderate leftist policies. The Premier survived, but only because the conservative-leaning Center Democratic Party (C.D.S.) agreed to form a governing coalition with the Socialists, who held 102 seats in the 263-member assembly. Last month the three C.D.S. Cabinet ministers threatened to resign unless Soares got rid of Agriculture Minister Luis Saias, a former Communist who the Centrists maintained was dragging his feet in restoring to its original owners lands seized by peasants during the turbulent 1974 revolution. The C.D.S. ministers also wanted sweeping modifications in a proposed national program of socialized medicine. When Scares refused, the dissidents...
...believed, and John F. Kennedy shared the belief, that history belongs to heroes; and heroes must not be forgotten. We talked from 8:30 until almost midnight, and it was only after she had rid herself of the blood scene that she tracked clearly what she wanted...