Word: treks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some decades, one of the most provocative inconveniences for Radcliffe women has been the daily noon-time trek from the dark labyrinths of Widener (where they live) back to the quad (where they lunch). Attempts have been made to improve the situation. A very useful traffic island was recently installed at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street; the Radcliffe Graduate Refectory has been opened to undergraduates who cannot reach the Quad by 1:15, when lunch service ceases; women have been given the opportunity to take box lunches with them in the morning and eat near their classes...
...Prince Souphanouvong, dazzled by his exposure to French socialism, turned left. He moved to Hanoi, married a Vietnamese girl, began consorting with the Viet Minh revolutionists, who were plotting the overthrow of Indo-China's French masters. In 1949, he set off on a 40-day trek through the northern jungles to a rendezvous with the brilliant Viet Minh ex-schoolteacher and field commander, General Vo Nguyen Giap. Over a bottle of warm champagne, which Giap bragged had been "taken from the body of a dead Frenchman," Giap explained how guerrilla warfare worked...
...bomb has become an outdoor sport that threatens to surpass bird watching in Britain. On Good Friday last year, 20,000 demonstrators gathered at Britain's atomic-weapons research center at Aldermaston, carrying knapsacks and pushing prams; they thoroughly snarled Easter-weekend traffic as they made their annual trek 54 miles east to London, winding up for a 100,000-man rally beneath the stern statue of Lord Nelson in Trafalgar Square. Last week the ban-the-bombers turned their attention to Holy Loch, a tiny inlet on Scotland's Firth of Clyde. The 18,500-ton tender...
With 8:39 remaining in the first half, the last place Crimson was leading 24-15, and mutterings of disbelief ran through the crowd. The beer was already on ice, the girls had made the arduous trek to the hinterlands of New Jersey, and the upstarts from Cambridge were winning...
Cark Kaysen newly appointed assistant Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration with probably join the trek of University in the Kenedy Administration...