Word: turn
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Maybe this year will be different. If the coach and players have anything to do with it, those sophisticated Harvard sneers may turn into cheers. There's a new spirit among the players this year: there's determination, something not too unusual in winning teams but something that hasn't been seen for a while in the Harvard locker room. And the potential basketball heroes aren't wasting any time in proving their intentions...
...been with the Houghton Library since its beginning. "Before the Houghton was built," he recalls, "the rare books and manuscripts were being kept in Widener Library, in stacks that were on the ground, or even below ground, where the heat was enormous. There wasn't any way to turn it off adequately. Every morning when Bill [William A. Jackson, curator of the Houghton from 1942 until his death in 1964] and I arrived at the so-called rare book room of Widener Library, the temperature would be a minimum of 85 degree, causing a dreadful degree of dryness...
KESEY'S only explicit political advice was given in a speech to a huge Berkeley peace rally. It was "to say fuck the war and just turn your back on it." This leads Wolfe to an asinine prediction of the "death" of radical politics, the end of organized demonstrations. He not only predicts, but at the end of the book describes this non-event as if it had actually occurred...
When International Petroleum Co., a subsidiary of Standard Oil (N.J.), agreed to turn over its La Brea y Pariñas oilfields to the Peruvian government two months ago, it appeared to be assuaging one of the deepest grievances of Peru's nationalists. As things turned out, the deal did not go nearly far enough for the country's military leaders, who used it as the prime pretext for overthrowing President Fernando Belaúnde Terry (TIME, Oct. 11). Last week, having peremptorily canceled Belaunde's agreement with IPC, Peru s new junta took a different approach...
...performance. His speech is an alternating pattern of comments followed by ghastly croaks that begin somewhere down within his sinewy frame and emerge through a crooked row of half rotten teeth. When I asked him why they called themselves "Cream," he emitted the type of lecherous laugh that would turn anyone with an unmarried daughter into a life-long advocate of the police state: "It was a joke...a dirty joke...