Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with blasts of compressed air. 3) Talk them into moving elsewhere. (This one came from a man who claims that he knows how to converse with pigeons. He asked for no salary, just free room and board until he gets the job done.) 4) Frighten the birds away with rubber rattlesnakes, fake owls or a yowling mechanical cat-with a dead pigeon in its mouth for extra effect...
...wanted on charges as varied as murder, rape, auto theft, burglary and dope peddling. In Koblenz, police raided a warehouse in search of terrorists-and surprised a gang of car thieves. At a roadblock in Hildesheim, a town 18 miles outside Hannover, police searched a car and found wigs, rubber masks and two pistols; the occupants confessed they were on their way to rob a bank. In the fashionable Grünewald section of West Berlin, a brothel operator griped about a sudden shortage of customers: "Clients don't like it when the place is crawling with cops...
Because meetings are closed, it is not clear how much influence the student minority can exert at the meetings. Two years ago, one of the graduate students on the committee resigned, charging it was a rubber stamp for administration policy. During the same year an undergraduate member published a dissenting budget report, criticizing the majority budget report as overly concerned with Princeton's financial status, and calling on administrators to set a budget that would preserve what he called the university's "educational endowment." He suggested considering more seriously a proposal to spend the endowment's principal in order...
Smith College last month sold almost $700,000 worth of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company stock because the company did not satisfactorily explain the rationale for construction of a new plant in South Africa...
...press clippings. He is especially devoted to the cause of freshman football. He points out that today will be the 95th time the Harvard and Yale freshmen have clashed. In that span, Harvard has won 44 games and Yale has won 44 games with six ties. "This is the rubber game," says Sadow...