Word: skeining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glomus, Latin for a skein, because it is a tangle of nerve fibers and small blood vessels-plus caroticum, derived from the Greek for stupefy, because pressure on the neck arteries will produce stupor...
Three Harvard deans and a Master spun out an intricate skein of interwoven fact, figure, and comment yesterday on the College and its undergraduates; listening was a relaxed but fascinated 25th reunion contingent--a group large enough to fill the main floor of Lowell Lecture Hall to the last seat...
...after the exam period break, they were rusty, and again took awhile to get back in shape, absorbing an 11-1 drubbing from Brown in their first post-exam game. Then came their five game skein only to lose their last game to Yale, mainly due to injuries to several key players...
Uncommon Development. Europe today is a tangled skein of alliances and associations, knitting the nations together for everything from the defense of the free world (NATO) to the telecasting of the Scots Guards into the homes of Athenians and Ankarans (EUROVISION), and the exchange of trade (EFTA), aid (OECD). and commemorative postage stamps (CEPT). Some of these organizations are not radically different from the old familiar alliances that the European nations have always found it convenient to form in times of relative peace. The drastic new departure that galvanizes all the others is the six-nation Common Market, comprising France...
Here, another thread enters the skein--the Program. True, anyone who had suggested in 1956 that the Program would change the Freshman year should most likely have had his head examined. But it went this way: the Program raised money for three new Houses. By 1960, one and a half were built or building, but the next one was temporarily stalled by a flap over whether Harvard could build on the MTA yards. Bundy and the Masters, convinced that $7 million would be better spent on something besides a new House, started diversionary ploys...