Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bradlee said, the message of Mrs. Donham's photographs "was clearly that we should stop the bombing in Vietnam. Unless the opposite point of view is also expressed, then it obviously shouldn't be in the window...
After several of these early morning excursions to the Coop, the president of the club took the sophomore aside and offered to teach him the essentials. The only alternative, the president suggested, was to stop playing poker...
...evening last week the regulars began arriving around nine. "Emperor" brought the cards. Before each game one of the players will stop at Cahaly's and buy two packs of Bee's playing cards. They have to be Bee's. "As soon as a card looks slightly ratty we throw out the deck. We were burning something like 14 decks a night. The janitor who emptied the waste-baskets was going mad," the "Emperor" explained...
...found that his losses were more than he could afford. But on his last hand he was golden--a blue bicycle (ace to five of the same suit). He called his father long distance and described his hand. His father agreed to back him if he would promise to stop playing poker. The student ended his career as a poker player several hundred dollars ahead...
...Harvard administration has quietly indicated to the hard core players that it does not approve of poker. But when asked to stop playing in his room one student merely moved his to a different entry. "What the eye doesn't see the heart won't grieve for," he said, describing Harvard's policy. "As long as it does not interfere with our grades they don't care," he added. In spite of his confidence, a number of Senior Tutors have allegedly been on the rampage...