Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dining Hall ladies are wearing them, Coop salesman are wearing them, even MTA drivers are wearing them. Suddenly all over the Square "Get The Tiger's Tail" buttons have mysteriously appeared. Everybody's got one, but no one seems to know where they came from...
...Viet Nam. In the beleaguered camp, American soldiers weathered 178 hours of constant mortar and recoilless rifle barrage, fanatical assaults by wave on wave of mustard-uniformed North Vietnamese regulars, the endless thrum and thunder of close air support ("The Skyraiders looked like they were wired nose to tail," marveled one survivor), night after night in which land flares and blazing napalm turned the landscape into a Bosch-like rendering of the pit. By the end of the siege, only three of Plei Me's dozen Special Forces men were unwounded and on their feet. But the Americans were...
...Last hog-killing time, several of the Handshoe boys dried a hog's bladder, filled it with peas to make a giant-size rattle. Then, relates Floyd's wife Dollie, still shaking with laughter at the memory, they "took and tied it to a cat's tail. That old cat took off like it was spooked." So, as soon as they reach their mid-teens, do most of the children themselves. The three oldest Handshoe sons have all had to leave the mountains for city jobs up North. "None of those boys want to live up there...
...Harvard's 1964 medical graduates applied for internships in Seattle. Enrollment has grown to 25,000. Odegaard has raised admission standards for liberal-arts students and has sharply upgraded undergraduate instruction to catch up to strong graduate departments, which, one professor explains, "used to be the tail that wagged the whole university...
...house, climbs a rickety bamboo ladder to his rooftop observation platform, built from driftwood, and aims his homemade telescope toward the sky. He has come to consider the stars old, familiar friends. It was only a month ago that he focused on the constellation Hydra, near whose tail he had spotted his first comet. Suddenly he spotted an unfamiliar glow. "It shone," says Ikeya, "like a street lamp on a misty night." All his checks confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had found another comet...