Word: taking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...league's 25,000 members are aggressively Christian, patriotic, mad as hell and resolved not to take it any more. The nation is on the Interstate to ruin, they feel. And, well, who doesn't these days, what with Soviet troops off the shores of Key West, the dollar sinking like the Lusitania, drug pushers in the schools, homosexuals in the pulpit, bureaucrats in just about everything, and goodness and patriotism generally on the run. Yet Harrell's Louisville pilgrims have converted these common gripes into obsessions...
...just heading down the primrose path to perdition, they fear; it is already there. "We're going to have a full-scale revolution," says Harrell, his voice rising. "We've got half the world's wealth, and the rest of 'em are coming to take it from us. The black man's angry, the yellow man's angry. Everybody's angry but the white man, and he's asleep...
...students take notes and volunteer hints of their own. ("I use distilled water for drinking; it stores longer"; "We plan to evacuate as a group in our mobile homes, and pull them into a circle for a wagon-train effect.") Jim Miller, 33, an auto service department manager from Boles, Ky., came for the food preservation and weapons courses. He now resolves to do more home canning, and to teach his ten-year-old son how to handle a gun. "He likes the idea, but his mother doesn't," says Miller. Charles Harrison, 31, a scholarly-looking accountant, says...
...didn't take long for Mayman and her office to eliminate whatever confusion and diffusion that plagued the arts at the schools before and during the merger. The office--and the arts at Harvard-Radcliffe--now look as complete and polished as a painting by a master artist...
Students today take for granted that the single admissions committee considers applications without regard to sex, but only five years ago, Radcliffe admitted women on a strict quota system dictated by Harvard, and the two admissions committees were completely separate operations...