Word: springing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MORE THAN half a decade before Rachel Carson published The Silent Spring, a Princeton undergraduate named Ralph Nader successfully persuaded the university to stop spraying its trees with insecticides toxic to song birds. Within the same years, an article by Nader appeared in the Princeton paper criticizing American automobiles as death-traps. Later, of course, Nader wrote Unsafe At Any Speed. Anticipating issues and revealing hidden crises is hardly new to Nader. But the report on the Federal Trade Commission published this January by seven law students working with Nader may be his most politically potent project...
...battle stretching from last spring to this fall, the Rufo firm unsuccessfully sought an amendment to the City's zoning code to allow it to build an apartment house-office building complex on the Baird site over twice as large as zoning permitted for the site...
Twenty Biology concentrators are circulating a petition protesting the dearth of Biology courses offered this Spring...
According to Haney, Hopkins is "in the same position as someone placed on probation who then withdraws for the Spring term." Haney added that this ruling does not amount to a suspension in that the Board will be "more flexible in looking at what the student does while he is away...
...this jejune January your baseball trivia quiz provided a hopeful harbinger of spring. I therefore waited eagerly for the quiz's omniscient propounder to provide the answer to the one query I couldn't cope with. Thus, you can imagine the crisis of faith I have been subjected to since discovering that Mr. Powers knows no more than I the identity of the youngest pitcher to win a major-league game...