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Word: roomful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fault of Evans, Melbourne's record is replete with mishaps. Designed as a British warship during World War II, the ship soon acquired the title of "Troublesome Lady." Built to withstand North Atlantic cold, it became an oven in the warm waters off Australia. Despite air conditioning, engine-room temperatures sometimes soared to 153 degrees. After a year in Australia, the catapult system developed a structural defect that grounded the carrier's aircraft for seven months. Two years later, the ship had to drop out of SEATO exercises when its boilers became overstrained. Until last week, the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: Disaster by Moonlight | 6/13/1969 | See Source »

This year was a political year, a year of confrontation, and the traditional Harvard politician fighting for parietals and girls in the dining room faded in the encounter...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Steve Kaplan Ken Glazier | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...from Kirkland House. This was the first time he had sought any student government position at Harvard. "I don't believe in student government in the traditional terms, and I would never run for HUC or HPC," Glazier said last week crumped down on the floor of his barren room. "SFAC seemed to be something different. That...

Author: By Scott W. Jacobs, | Title: Steve Kaplan Ken Glazier | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

Without passion, the first 70 pages of Tike chronicle one of the most beauteous single days you could ever spend in fiction or in life. Tike is a boy who lives in a room and works nights shelving books at a library. He has a dog named McDog and an unfailing fountain of music from his stereo. A lady gives him a record for his helpful knowledge of discography. A girl downstairs named Val wants to sleep with Tike and does. Other people in his building invite him into their lives...

Author: By Carter Wilson, | Title: Tike and Five Stories | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

March 25: President Pusey spoke to a closed meeting of the SFAC, but only after weathering an invasion of 150 students protesting ROTC's continued presence at Harvard. The students left the Winthrop House Common Room after demanding that Pusey get rid of ROTC, and Pusey then told SFAC members about the Corporation's negotiations with the Pentagon and about his own views on the relation between the University and the government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Until the April Crisis... | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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