Word: sinkful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Their walk is slow, for they are dead weary . . . Every line and sag of their bodies speaks their inhuman exhaustion. On their shoulders and backs they carry heavy steel tripods, machine-gun barrels, leaden boxes of ammunition. Their feet seem to sink into the ground from the overload they are bearing. They don't slouch. It is the terrible deliberation of each step that spells out their appalling tiredness. Their faces are black and unshaven. They are young men, but the grime and whiskers and exhaustion make them look middle-aged . . . All afternoon men keep coming round the hill...
Tough stuff, but not uncommon at Harvard, where William Hawkins, '76 and now head of his own California computer-software firm, recalls battling for two years for permission to design a specialized computer-science major for himself alone -- with which he earned magna cum laude. "Harvard was a real sink-or-swim environment," he says. "I learned to be totally self-reliant. The university's idea of personal counseling was, 'What can we do to make you study...
Outside of Massachusetts Hall, for instance, Bok's administration has spent at least $50,000 in landscaping and construction of a guard house with gingerbread trim. And across the campus, Harvard officials are planning to sink nearly $500 million into building renovations on campus...
...Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.) said Rehnquist "had everything but the kitchen sink thrown at him" yet still "came out of the hearings stronger than when he went...
...police surrounded the school and townspeople scrambled to raise ransom money, Doris tried to comfort the scared and tired children by bringing in library books, crayons and a television set. Some youngsters wept; a few vomited into the classroom sink. After a 2 1/2-hour standoff, White left to go to the bathroom, handing his wife, who was standing in the center of the room, two bottles of gasoline wired to a battery and manual trigger. When her hand apparently slipped on the trigger, she set off the crude bomb. The blast killed her instantly. It seared young faces with flash...