Word: umbrellaed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year bonds at four per cent interest in the Fund Development Corporation, the economic development arm of the Black United Front, the umbrella community organization for Roxbury-North Dorchester...
...halt in Chicago. A combination of the Johnson-Daley political axis and McCarthy's own bumbling, Quixotic personal style combined to create the debacle in Chicago. The only man who came out of the Democratic convention in 1968 looking even remotely human was George McGovern, whose candidacy provided an umbrella for Kennedy supporters, sick at the thought of Humphrey yet turned off by a lackluster McCarthy...
Then, by good luck, in came an old lady of seventy, going to spend a week with her niece. She had three trunks, two carbet-bags, a band-box, an umbrella, a bundle of clothes, a parasol, a bundle of tracts, a jar of pickles, some pepper-mints, a few odd parcels, the usual squalling baby, and a few other indispensable. Of course I was only too happy to help her in any way, i. c. look after her ticket, seat, trunks, parcels, grandson, etc. To cut short, at last the conductor gave us a good start, and we wheezed...
...role of a Harvard man has been difficult, but for entirely different reasons. Anyone who has gone to Harvard knows how many "Harvards" exist under the umbrella of the institutional title. Yet to others I have met, it has always meant something either essentially threatening or something which has conveyed upon the bearer of it an almost beatific quality. From my Marine training I remember: a platoon commander from West Point screaming in my face that I had written "Harvard College" rather than "Harvard University" on my registration forms as some kind of subtle joke; peers in training stunned...
...measure. The committee's procedures, which called for closed committee and subcommittee meetings, caused one PBH stalwart, Barry F. O'Connell '65, to submit his resignation as graduate secretary, and the damage list is still not complete. The CSCR recommendations to Dean Dunlop could provide him with a protective umbrella to phase out the Faculty subsidy by June 1973. In addition, the Corporation might point to the CSCR report as a major reason for upholding the decision to shut down the PBH building in the evenings and on weekends, a move that will eliminate many of PBH's social service...