Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aside from all those cars competing for the limited Harvard space, Burns says that there are "plenty of people coming into the Square who just pull into a spot, not realizing it's a Harvard space." He adds, however, that signs are posted near all spaces identifying them as "parking by permit only...
Games: Poker, backgammon, "Spot a Junkie," "Spot a Looney," and various sing-alongs...
...York City was the center of almost all the spot games; Philadelphia was too depressing. Without question the most popular song on the bus was Billy Joel's "Just the Way You Are," followed closely on Friday by The Drifters' hit "On Broadway." The most inspiring rendition was that of "My Way" by almost the entire team during the trip from Columbia to Philadelphia...
...profligate professor named Pease Conquered co-eds with consummate ease, And while most would succumb On the spot, there were some Whom he had to seduce by degrees...
...wander around some more, waiting for the order to line up and head out. Beyond a three-headed effigy with the names Bakke, Vorster and Carter pinned on it, you spot a row of hard blue hats, glistening in the sun. You recall anti-war rallies in the '60s--when hard-hats with American flag-pins and tatooed, bulging arms did their patriotic bit for Uncle Sam--and a surge of adrenalin runs up your back. There's always that possibility, in a large demonstration...