Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minor student take-over at the conservative Santa Barbara University of California campus October 10 had prompted a secret threat by Ronald Reagan to settle the dispute by bringing in the National Guard if the Administration did not remove the demonstrators within a short time. By nightfall the Santa Barbara administrators had agreed to the small militant band's requests. The students left the administration building shaking their heads in disbelief at the administration's acquiescence...
Harvard will continue to use its short-passing game. If it rains today, as expected, both goalies will be at a disadvantage and both teams will be attempting to shoot more and pass less...
...created on short notice last spring after the Ad Hoc Committee negotiated with Dean Ford and convinced him that Harvard needed courses dealing directly with the Afro-American experience. Ford, at that time, also set up a faculty committee, chaired by Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics, to investigate the possibly of establishing a department or concentration in black studies...
...wearing a long, extra long, shiny gray suit, white shirt, thin red tie, short hair, and, notable among his expressionless features, straight-staring, hard-looking eyes. While speaking, he lines up his green blotter with the bottom of his desk. He runs his thumb along the ridge to make sure the blotter edge are even. Then he places his square pen stand in the bottom right hand corner of the blotter. That leaves him, finally, with only my information sheet, with which he improvises, placing it on top or to the left of the pen stand, perfectly even with...
There remains far too short a space to praise the company, in the style they deserve. Sheila Hart is as always matchless; it is to be regretted that as the mother of Leantio part of her character dies a-borning in the first act and the very strength of her acting, coming as it does when the play is weakest, tends to reaffirm that fact...