Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when three weeks had gone by and still no word from the History, Government, English and Economics Departments, Bowersock began to wonder whether anyone was home in those tutorial offices. Finally, after several not-so-gentle-reminders, the results started coming in this week. History, Government and English managed to write up their memos, but apparently the Economics administrators had better things to do. An unidentified Economics secretary, left a phone message with Bowersock's secretary, sketchily answering half of Bowersock's questions. As it turned out, Donald Walls, head tutor of Economics, did not even know about the phone...
...little success. A battle in the legislature has resulted only in a standoff. The state regulatory agencies are lumbering into action but can barely keep up with the proposed copper and nickel mining. The state executive board will soon decide whether to allow exploration on state lands. Much education still needs to be done around the uranium mining issue...
...Edward S. Lenhoff, isotope laboratory supervisor in the biological labs, said yesterday he still "has plenty of storage area...
...fell to her knees clutching her face. I pulled her up, urging, "Run, you've got to run." Twenty feet away a medic met us and pushed her down. I yanked her head back and forced open her eyes so he could rinse them with boric acid. She was still screaming and clawing with her arms when the cops came up. "We're helping her," I screamed at them. "She's hurt." With his nightstick in his other hand the National Guardsman pushed at her back. We grabbed her and ran a few feet, and then my face began...
...hours, Seabrook looks pretty dull--very dull, in fact. A steady drizzle replaces the afternoon's thick mist falling on Seabrook police car number 23. Through the treetops, red airplane warning lights shine on the cranes that just into the eastern sky from the construction site. The cranes are still now, and the only visible activity is at Dunkin' Donuts across the street, where a scraggly crowd orders crullers and coffee...