Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their careers and weaving their dreams of normalcy unaware of the changes they were to face personally, professionally and politically, Harvard was a very different school. Local merchants advertised grey flannel suits on sale for $39.95; Crimson editors annually elected a Miss Radcliffe from each freshman class. Although most upper-level courses were already coeducational, Harvard and Radcliffe were two distinct schools. Women were allowed into newly-opened Lamont Library only at specific hours and in specific rooms. Men could only entertain female guests in their rooms until 8 p.m. and had to check their visitors in and out with...
...gather it and bring it home; in Niger, wood is so expensive that a laborer must spend nearly a quarter of his income on fuel. Elsewhere, the search for firewood is helping to create new deserts. Almost all the trees within 70 kilometers (44 miles) of Ouagadougou in Upper Volta have already been consumed as fuel by the city's inhabitants. Now the circle of naked land is expanding...
...doomsayers. The most ardent conservationists, he scoffs, are elitists with a "trendy" argument that rarely gets more sophisticated than "stopping the earth at once before it's too late." This aristocratic posture, he says, allows the well-heeled to display "exquisite sensibilities, moral virtue and subtle perceptions." What upper-class conservationists are really concerned about, he insists, is saving their "salmon streams and grouse moors." Little fuss is ever made, he notes, about the more immediate environmental concerns of factory workers and slumdwellers: "Poverty is degradation, misery and starvation, not the level of carbon monoxide in the air." Growth...
Burgmeier had come into replace 23-year-old starter Paul Redfern, who left the game after four innings with a strained upper left thigh muscle he suffered the injury in the first inning...
...most vociferous reaction came from Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The vacation islands now have one representative apiece; under the redistricting plan, they will share a single representative with either upper or lower Cape Cod. Complaining that they will be deprived of an individual representative for the first time since the 17th century, some islanders threatened secession (TIME, March 21, 1977). New Hampshire's archconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson muddied the waters further by promising Nantucketers that he would give them "two or three representatives and maybe a senator" in Concord's legislature; he also pointed out that...