Word: stand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cent student stand-by fare was raised to 60 per cent, and the reserved seat youth fare-formerly two-thirds-was changed to a 20 per cent discount...
...Medical School, no first or second-year classes will meet, as decided in departmental meetings last week. Medical students are working to organize teams of doctors, students, and medical staff workers to stand on street corners wearing white robes and distribute anti-war information. Anti-war activity, including the wearing of armbands and the stetting up of information booths will take place in every major Boston hospital...
...telescoped, infinitely more stressful version of ordinary life. For this reason, and to get the men back to duty as quickly as possible, the Army is creating a new breed of lay therapist, from the battalion surgeon to the squad sergeant to the commanding officer. All these men stand on the line with the soldier. If they are taught to understand and deal with the factors that can cripple a fighting man without visibly injuring him, they can provide an effective, on-the-spot countermeasure against this elusive enemy. In Viet Nam, the lessons are being learned...
Whoever heard of a wedge of cake as big as a luncheonette booth? Or a giant fan so limp that it can hardly stand up, much less turn. Or three-way extension plugs, tall as children, and all ready to totter up to the viewer and command: "Take me to your leader!" His gleaming soft toilet slumps and sags like a geriatric patient. Oldenburg knows precisely what he is doing. "The important thing about humor is that it opens people. They relax their guard, and you can get your serious intentions across. If I were as didactic in my work...
...best work. Financed through an especially established Colossal Keepsake Corp., he has produced and "given" Yale University a 24-ft.-high lipstick made of metal. Sitting on a tanklike base in Beinecke Plaza, it looks morose rather than confident, too small to take an architectural stand against the ponderous classicism of the surrounding buildings. But the students seem to like it. Anyway, if Yale does not want Colossal Keepsake Number One, Oldenburg will offer it to one college after another until it is accepted...