Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...protest, designed to draw attention to the rising incidence of cancer in areas of heavy pesticide use, is part of a nationwide relay effort, in which celebrities, politicians and students take turns fasting. UFW President Caesar Chavez began the fast this summer with a 36-day hunger strike before passing the protest effort to the Rev. Jesse Jackson...
...Last summer, the University learned that two of America's largest tobacco producers in which it owns stock--RJR and Philip Morris--practice unethical advertising in underdeveloped nations. Apparently surprised by this discovery, Harvard demanded an explanation and considered withdrawing its investment from the companies...
DURING the 1986 campaign for the Massachusetts eighth congressional seat, then-candidate Joseph Kennedy II jogged through stalled traffic in Allston, shaking hands with motorists in a final effort to sway any remaining undecided voters. Shortly afterward, my friend Paul, who had spent the summer working construction in Cambridge, told me how his co-workers, having seen Kennedy on television, raved about his whistle-stop tour of the area's red lights...
...Ullyot is a first-year member of Harvard's track team. This summer, Ullyot won a two-and-a-half mile run at Fresh Pond. Track Coach Frank Haggerty spotted the results of that race in the Boston Globe and asked Ullyot to join the team...
First there was Humphrey, the desultory humpback whale saved from starvation in California's Sacramento River in 1985 by an armada of whale lovers who successfully herded him out to sea. Last summer there was Henry, a young whale who made a wrong turn and ended up in New York's polluted harbor before regaining his bearings. Then last week the sight of three battered and bloodied gray whales gasping for breath at holes in a thickening Arctic ice pack caused Americans to forget, for a moment or two, both the World Series and the Bush-Dukakis race...