Word: seene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most ridiculous hockey games ever seen on Watson Rink, the varsity hockey team destroyed a hapless Tufts sextet last night, 16 to 1. Captain Bob Cleary led the attack for the Crimson, registering an astonishing ten points...
Unconvincing Witnesses. During Scott's eleven-week trial, the defense produced witnesses who testified that they had seen Evelyn Scott after May 16, 1955. Apparently none of this testimony convinced the jurors: after deliberating for 29 hours they found L. Ewing Scott guilty of first-degree murder. Two days later the jury sat again to fix the sentence of life imprisonment...
...Fast. In any year, Khrushchev was as extraordinary a dictator as the world has ever seen. Not since Alexander the Great had mankind seen a despot so willingly, so frequently, and so publicly drunk. Not since Adolf Hitler had the world known a braggart so arrogantly able to make good his own boasts. In 1957 Nikita Khrushchev did more than oversee the launching of man's first moons. He made himself undisputed and single master of Russia. Few men had traveled so far so fast...
...Harry Truman will declare, "Eisenhower is sick, sick, sick." The HYDC says "Those guys are crazy." Eisenhower has not been seen for three weeks. The Harvard Liberal Union will write a folk song commemorating the death of five executives of the Harvard Young Democratic Club. The Joint Chiefs of Staff will deny any inter-service difficulties as the Navy continues to send waves of Marines into the Pentagon via helicopters. Perry Miller gives Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. his harpoon and kayak as a going away present...
...proposing swains. Helena records family stories of how the girls "used to peek through the keyhole and tell each other, 'I think that so-and-so's mine.' " Helena's mother was one of only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly seen through a child's eyes-a beautiful marriage. But daddy was hooked by the diamond fever, and no amount of hard work helped because he never found enough diamonds. Helena spent long hours at housework when she should have been doing her schoolwork, and mamma tried all sorts...