Word: summered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardscrabble town of Marianna, Ark. (pop. 6,200), near the Mississippi River, has no movie theater but plenty of boarded-up storefronts. Summer work for teenagers can mean wrenching labor in the rice and soybean fields. Young black men know that if they want something better, they have to go elsewhere...
Hays Gorey and his wife Nonie were visiting friends in Washington one summer ! evening in 1959 when their hosts dragged them along to a lawn party. Sipping a drink in a dark corner of the yard, Gorey was startled by a rustling in the hedges. A party crasher? When the intruder emerged from a gap between the shrubs, Gorey recognized him instantly and asked, "Senator, do you usually enter parties this...
...spring afternoon, a few of Bennett's young friends settle down for their regular freewheeling discussion. "She is a hell of a lady," says Leo, 15. "She kept my brothers out of trouble. My sisters, my friends." She has just helped Leo get a job for the summer as a supervisor for a neighborhood cleanup crew. This afternoon Bennett wants to talk about crack. Have any of the children been talking to the dealers lately? Have any of them been smoking? "We're not accusing anybody here. We're going to help people here," she says warmly...
...Crimson is ranked eighth in the nation and looking for its first NCAA playoff bid since 1980. Unranked and luckless New Hampshire, a team that lost to Yale by only one goal, hasn't had a very memorable season and is now just one game away from summer vacation...
Vorenberg's resignation in the summer of 1989 has left enough time for a thorough and exhaustive search by President Bok for a replacement. Yet the timing also raises a thorny question: what will happen to the Law School for the next year and a half. Power struggles and coalition voting have already been the norm and will surely intensify under a lame duck dean. The Law School needs direction soon, and Vorenberg's delayed resignation until next year will only make answers harder to find...