Word: sat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Felske, the Warren Beatty look-alike with a style to match, instituted a running program and longer workouts for starters. He then sat back and watched as the squad, aided by four talented freshmen, rolled up a perfect 5-0 fall slate and finished first in both the Greater Boston and Mass. State Championships...
Over the summer, the attitude of Harvard administrators toward the inchoate Student Assembly has become more favorable, according to students working with administrators. One student deeply involved in the assembly said the new administration attitude makes him wonder if Epps, Fox, and Rosovsky sat down at some point in the summer and decided that the University should quietly encourage the new student government. Epps, in an interview last week, took a considerably more favorable stance than he has since the North Carolina decision became known...
...after the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention, a group of latter-day Yippies shouted the old battle cry: "The whole world is watching!" But hardly anyone was. Then the Yippies went marching through the streets, and the friendly police even provided two motorcyclists to clear the way. They sat in a busy intersection, chanting, "The streets belong to the people!" But when a few cops finally told them to move on, they meekly complied. They smoked pot and slept in the park, but their main complaint to the bored police was, "How come we're not getting busted...
Seated at a table in front of the Sistine Chapel altar, the Cardinal solemnly intoned the name written on each ballot. "Luciani . . . Luciani . . . Luciani . . ." Beside him sat two other Cardinal scrutatores (vote counters) who carefully plucked the ballots from a silver chalice, unfolded them and passed them to their colleague. It was the fourth and final ballot of the astonishing one-day conclave that gave the Catholic world its 263rd Pope: Albino Cardinal Luciani, 65, Patriarch of Venice...
...counting went on, two Cardinals who had entered the conclave as favorites listened attentively. Both are highly placed in the Vatican's powerful bureaucracy, the Curia: Sergio Pignedoli, who sat just to the right of the altar, and Sebastiano Baggio, who sat just to the left. But the name that kept resounding toward the shadowy ceiling of the chapel be longed to no seasoned veteran of the Curia. It belonged to a Cardinal who had never drafted documents from the dry heart of the Vatican at all, or served overseas in the papal diplomatic service. He had, in fact...