Word: signs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...boat was a snub-nosed skiff whose bow lowered to become a landing bridge. When we got in we had to sign a release for any damage we did ourselves on the "hazardous facilities" on the island. Casting off, we thumped out across the bay, our wake rocking lobster buoys which spread out around us as far as we could see. On the horizon rose up the two towers of the Eyes of Cape Ann; below them, in the early light, the island looked like a smear of mist...
...RUSHING to sign up for the war on drugs before next month's election," was how The Washington Post cynically characterized the Senate's overwhelming approval of an anti-drug measure last week...
...This fall, The Crimson advertised for its news and editorial comps with a simple sign saying, "Comp Crimson." None of the 30 people expressing a strong interest in the editorial comp were women...
Because of the 1960s and 1970s women's liberation movement, our generation was the first to be educated in classrooms that sought to equalize the situation for genders. Harvard is the ultimate step on this educational continuum, the ultimate sign that women can achieve as much as men. But if women here do not rise to the top in a rate commensurate with men, then it becomes that much harder to compete after graduation...
Deaf poet Peter Cook and interpreter Kenny Lerner garnered repeated applause--waving hands in American Sign Language (ASL)--from the approximately 60 people in the audience. The reading was presented by the Boston Theater of the Deaf (BDT), Harvard coordinators for persons with disabilities and the Phillips Brooks House Committee for the Deaf...