Word: urn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silver tea urn got the afternoon off to an inauspicious start yesterday, when its handle jammed. After years of desuetude, the machine seemed reluctant to return to its old functions. The staff worked over the urn for a few moments, and got it back into shape as the Faculty began to queue...
...highest political office dragged on inconclusively for a record 16 days and 23 ballots, one vote was cast for Alighiero Noschese, a television comedian who does a splendid impersonation of Richard Nixon. On another ballot, one elector absentmindedly dropped a love letter into the green wicker voting urn. Most of the time, there were so many astenuti, or abstainers, that the joke went round that the Onorevole Astenuti ("the Honorable Mr. Astenuti") was the most promising candidate...
...final trophy event of the fall season, Radcliffe's sailors lost the Victorian Coffee Urn by two points to MIT. Jinxed by the home-team advantage, the Cliffie's were plagued by costly disqualifications...
...moderately easterly breezes on Saturday and were gusted by nor'westers on Sunday. Team coach Mike Horn praised the outstanding ability and over-all depth of the Radcliffe women. With the Man-Labs Trophy secured on the Yacht club trophy shelf, Radcliffe is favored to capture the Victorian Coffee Urn in two weeks, climaxing the Fall season here at Radcliffe. This week-end the team will have two tough warm-up meets: the Invitational at MIT on Saturday and at Jackson on Sunday...
...that exist among the Six. But so far, the main effect of his campaign has been to stir new doubts about Common Market membership in Britain, where cremation is common. Britons already consider themselves too heavily taxed on their income to be expected to cough up for what they urn as well...