Word: tubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, it is the best studio. It is also the product of the devotion of a handful of people. Yet because it is at Harvard, it is taken for granted, that the studio is outstanding. Association assumes superiority: Harvard is Harvard, home of every tub on its own bottom, and of the Radcliffe Pottery Studio (The Radcliffe Studio of Harvard University). One would think that it would be better able to handle that motto than most Harvard dependents--that its autonomy would be insured. That is not the case...
Onstage, Moon sells his ideas like a tub-thumping evangelist, slapping his fist into his hand to make a point, belting out his words in enthusiastic Korean, which an aide quickly translates. After two decades of such evangelizing, Moon's church and its affiliates (One World Crusade and the Freedom Leadership Foundation, among others) seem to be just hitting their stride. Although orthodox Christians recoil from Moon's teachings, the Moonists claim 600,000 followers worldwide, with perhaps 100,000 "core members" who are willing to give up their personal lives entirely to work for the master...
...previous week, Nixon made a Friday foray out into carefully chosen country, this time Pekin, 111. He delivered another tub-thumping speech about America and his accomplishments, and was rewarded with warm smiles and applause. But then it was off to his Key Biscayne retreat and an encapsulated atmosphere where it is just possible that Nixon still knows, and understands less about Watergate than the average American television viewer...
...Laurin watched the groom prepare Secretariat's usual supper-oats cooked into a mash, plus carrots and some vitamins and minerals, plus some "sweet feed," grains coated with molasses to provide the rough equivalent of a candied breakfast cereal. The mixture filled the better part of a big tub, and Laurin said, "He won't finish that in three days." An hour and a half later the tub was empty...
...community at large, only those plans, goals, projections and timetables submitted to it by the various deans, department heads and administrative units within the University. The fact is that anyone with a modicum of understanding of the University structure knows that Harvard operates on a system of "every tub on its own bottom...