Word: spend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connecticut happily antique-hunting with your mother. You stop off at an auction and spend $3.50 on a "mystery chest." Six men help you carry it to your Ford station wagon, and when you open it, you find 40 metal film tins marked: Greed, Reels 1-40. "What a long film to make about such an unpleasant subject," your mother says as you open one of the tins. The film wound around the rusty reels is brown and moldy: fungus-like organisms have sprouted from the innumerable folds. Overcome by a powerful smell, you sneeze on it, and the brown...
...count, 79 U.S. defectors had arrived in the country, where they are taken under the wing of Myrdal's Committee on Viet Nam or the radical leftist Front for National Liberation. Their sponsors see to it that the deserters are provided with housing (usually in student dormitories) and spending money ($16 a week in government welfare pay). They have not, however, been able to make them feel at home. Few of the Americans have been able to learn enough Swedish to hold down a job, and many spend their days just drinking beer at Stockholm's Karl Marx...
From here, the scramble for positions begins. Steve Devereux, who saw limited action last year, will occupy the number four slot during the Spring trip. However, hockey star, Kent Parrot, who will spend Spring vacation on his honeymoon, should move ahead of Devereux once the regular season begins...
...Priorities differ from community to community. If Stokely and I had tried to be any more specific or programatic we would have been relevant to a few specific places and irrelevant to the rest of the national black community. Books alone aren't the answer. That's why I spend so much time in Newark and Gary and Chicago's Third Congressional District...
...Faculty Research Fellowships, grants which free faculty members from full-time work in the history department. However, only one of this year's three appointments went to a junior faculty member, Dr. Neil Harris. The grant allows Harris, who taught "The Impact of Technology on America" last spring, to spend only half his time teaching and the other half doing his own reading and research (on "crowds and the nature of safety" in the last half of the nineteenth century...