Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women, summed up Harvard's attitude toward women when she stated that the 1960's was "a time when then-Harvard President Nathan Pusey could declare that Harvard could accept no additional women because Harvard's job was to train leaders, and guess who that didn't mean." F. Skiddy von Stade, dean of Freshmen, later said of women in the 1969 strike, "they were so insolent, the worst of the bunch. At least you have to respect the boys a little since they have something riding on this...
...replenishes streams, reservoirs and irrigation ditches, and with only a modest runoff in sight, Oregon officials expect as much as a $2 billion economic loss by fall. The Pacific Northwest's forests are so dry and flammable that Oregon Governor Robert Straub has hired 400 unemployed workers to train as fire fighters and is urging the creation of a four-state regional fire-fighting task force to coordinate battles against the flames expected this summer...
...town reservoir has only a 30-day supply of water left. Lee Reynolds shut down his car wash. The local Laundromat was about to close-but it burned down first. Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell, borrows water from a neighbor's cistern to flush toilets, boils rice in milk instead of water, and finds he is hard...
Henry Brock is an English bachelor and a railway man with a precise idea of heaven: "The right sort of train to London ... a morning train, with a good breakfast car, lots of coffee and toast and bacon and eggs and marmalade, the newspaper, and two or three hours of pleasantly changing views through the window." Alas, such bliss is denied him. On holiday in Italy, Brock and his girl friend are drowned when their cruise ship sinks. Because of his record of unrepented fornications, he is sentenced to the Second Circle of Hell -Dante's Circle...
Brock is not about to take hell lying down. Before falling completely into his rut, the ex-railroader busies himself with refurbishing the Limbo Line, a rickety train that runs from the First to the Fourth Circle of Hell - home of the avaricious. He is swiftly drawn into infernal politics. Cleopatra, the Second Circle's reigning queen, wants to rule all upper hell. Sister Martha, a heavenly busybody who wants to liberate souls from Limbo, will not hear of this. Satan, naturally, is enraged by Cleopatra's ambition...