Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Bok's establishment of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) this Fall brought a potentially explosive issue under the Harvard umbrella. Last Spring, a group of black undergraduates, frustrated by Harvard's refusal to divest its portfolio of Gulf Oil stock, took over Harvard's "Wall Street"--Massachusetts Hall--in protest...
...Latin, terrible in math and, again, impudent. At Sydney University, where he studied arts and law, he was known as a prankster. In his first role as Prime Minister, he played Neville Chamberlain in a 1940 student skit. Stepping to the footlights in a bowler and carrying an umbrella, he said: "I have seen their leader and I have his reply." Pulling the inevitable collegiate roll of toilet paper from his pocket, he added: "It bears his mark and mine. And I told him what to do with...
...into green and blue balloons and floated away. Thomas Fuller matched her as her husband, demanding his dinner ("he only thinks about love," she observed) or showing off the 40,049 babies he had made by himself in a single day, and Harris Saunders, as the Journalist, twirled his umbrella suavely as he threatened to expose his father. Best of all, perhaps, was Roger Freeland as the continually benevolent and continually bewildered gendarme...
...anti-children and anti-family,' " she cautioned. "Very frankly, there have been some excesses in movement thinking. Children are more than a pile of dirt and diapers; families have provided love. This Caucus should not be the cutting edge of the women's movement, but the big umbrella over...
...Zeppelin had, in effect, laid a covered tower on its side, filled it with gas and floated off. Marconi sent a wireless message across the Atlantic. The Wright brothers flew, and off the Maine coast a boy named Bucky Fuller Tom-Swifted a rowing device-a combination jellyfish and umbrella that enabled him to pole through deep water...