Word: ushered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order approach has included the arrest of some 30,500 alleged gangsters and hooligans and the firing of 8,000 bureaucrats for alleged corruption or inefficiency. At the same time, Chun appeals constantly to Korea's less well-off with populist rhetoric. Says he: "We have to usher in a new era by building a democratic welfare society. Everyone must be satisfied materially as well as spiritually...
More than 30,000 alumni elected the new overseers in balloting by mail. The five will serve for six years. They replace John Usher Monro '34, Mary E. Procter '63, Elliot L. Richardson '51 and Lloyd H. Smith, who completed their terms this year. Andrew Heiskell, whose term also expired this year, became a Fellow of Harvard College last October...
...most of them right out of military cockpits. The Air Force estimates that a pilot with twelve years of experience has received pay, allowances and training worth roughly $4 million. "Trying to replace that experience is not only very expensive, but it takes time," says Major General William Reed Usher, director of the Air Force's personnel plans. "You end up with a more junior, less ready force." Says Colonel Bradfield Eliot at Norton Air Force Base in California: "We are so short of pilots that we are putting staff people back into the cockpit and making aircraft commanders...
...second and third years, I lived in a Business School dormitory alongside the stadium and worked in one of the dining halls. By then I was a section head usher and saw all of the football games. The most exciting one was the Harvard-Dartmouth 20-20 tie in 1927. I think that was the year...
...students, harassing a gay Harvard student (I'll call him D) and his friends. Next I watched one of the thugs grab D by the collar and threaten to beat him up. At that point a Black Harvard student (E) came to D's aid and tried to usher the thug out of Tommy's. Push came to shove and a genuine brawl broke out. E was aided by an Adams House tutor and an employee of Tommy...