Word: springs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...County Hospital, initially backed by the state, took the position early in the dispute that they could not legally bargain with a union of employees paid out of public funds. Gradually the anti-union tradition crumbled under strong pressure. A 9 p.m. curfew enforced by National Guardsmen cut the spring tourist trade. A Negro boycott of white businesses also did economic damage to the city. National publicity was mostly unfavorable and the strikers drew support from national labor and civil rights groups...
...frantically color-splashed pants suits. Folded Yiddish newspapers protruded from the pockets of some of the men. While President Leonard Lief conferred the degrees, jet planes from Kennedy Airport soared overhead; the roar of traffic and elevated trains, punctuated occasionally by the shriek of sirens, filtered through the spring-fresh foliage of trees surrounding the campus. There was only passing allusion to dissent in the address by Larry C. Dillard, senior-class president and a Negro. Dillard cited widespread poverty, "the horror of Viet Nam," the plight of the black man and campus disorders, and urged his fellows to fight...
...coincidence, their admirably precise diableries are also gentler, more conventional, more philosophical, more ethereal than their American counterparts'. Though all are firmly established in their native Vienna, none had made much of a splash elsewhere until London's Marlborough Gallery mounted a show for Erich Brauer this spring...
Robin Foote, 23, is the first woman at the Harvard Business School to become a Baker Scholar. Once a math buff, she shifted to economics because it was "more world-oriented, more people-oriented." This spring she traveled to Atlanta's Morris Brown College, a Negro school, to advise it on how to apply for more federal funds; with her help, Morris Brown got an added $136,000. She has applied for a White House Fellowship, and hopes to spend the next year as an aide to a Cabinet officer. "I love problem solving," she says, which...
House guests would find him in "a kind of Holbein square cap of velvet and black velvet coat," scattering bread on the lawn for the birds. In the spring of 1900, when he was 57, he shaved off his beard and felt "forty and clean and light." His bared face revealed surprising strength-the iron spirituality of a worldly archbishop...