Word: summer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...several students, seething wit vioence, violently escorted (manhandled, etc.) several deans out of their offices. (The students were duly dismissed from Harvard, which is a university known far and wide for its abhorrence of violence). I could go on. During the campaign for president of the U. S. last summer, many students heckled candidates, including Hubert Humphrey (who eventually finished second) and George Wallace (who finished third...
...quite russet, if I remember correctly. Two falls before, John Kennedy was shot dead in the middle of a Biology test. A girl came running into class hysterical to tell us. A few of us stayed to finish up our mollusca; then they let us out early. The summer before, I was a civil rights worker in Alabama. In those days, we believed that the government could solve all of our problems, and that we were the good guys and the government was on our side fighting the forces of evil...
...cigarette manufacturer that has annual sales of $11 million. The bulk of the unions' annual income of $7,500,000 comes from their real estate, worth at least $25 million. It consists mainly of dormitories, which the students built themselves and which they turn into tourist hotels during summer vacations...
Commando Tactics. Last week visitors were filling up the student-owned "summer hotels" and patronizing their restaurants. In Helsinki, converted dormitories provide 1,000 modern rooms for low-budget tourists, adding 70% to the city's available hotel space. Another 1,000 rooms are for rent in the provinces; single rooms go from...
...Birmingham in a bad year." In the witty image of Diplomat-Author Harold Nicolson, Chamberlain may have looked like a curate entering a pub for the first time, but he was sneaky enough, says Mosley, to trick Anthony Eden into resigning as Foreign Minister and, as late as the summer of 1939, to make fumbling secret overtures to the Germans without informing the French or even his own Foreign Office. Chamberlain's supreme stupidity was to treat his friends like enemies and his enemies like friends...