Word: takings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time Martin knew what was coming, and he determined not to be caught. He would not take any crap from this little bitch. None! He stayed up until four in the morning, plotting his answers...
...which sounded to him like some kind of seafood dish, but he didn't pursue the comparison any further.) Anyway, she told Martin's parents and Martin that he wasn't really in bad shape (mind you, she was only a trainee) and that all he needed was to take a more positive approach to things, and that everything would turn out fine...
...most of the students, some dramatic incident precipitated going to the hospital-a Cliffie screamed at her roommates for ten minutes, another student refused to take his exams, a third begged his roommate to hold his hand so he could go to sleep. By the time they got to MCLean, their feelings were violent enough that their perceptions of the hospital could not be objective. In describing it in the interviews, several said that the place was minor compared to the experiences they...
...urinating all over the place. I stayed in the hall and told the black attendant spook stories..." He became more and more excited and finally was put in the "box," an empty room "with cement all over, small windows with bars and an iron door. I was told to take off all my clothes... it was cold. I was not allowed to have water. I was given one blanket. There was nothing to urinate in. I screamed all night..." He left after a week and went to another hospital...
...office moved around a good bit in those days and wherever it went there was a sanctum, the center of exuberant convivality. Franklin D. Roosevelt recalled years later the occasion of the transfer of quarters to the Union in 1891: "There was much fear that the new quarters would take away the espirit de corps which had grown up in the old sanctum, and also that no punch night could be held in the Union. Both fears proved to be groundless...