Word: walking
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...institution seeminly independent of Harvard, sharing only course instruction, an economy measure forced by war-time pressures. Radcliffe women lived in the dormitories at the Radcliffe Quadrangle, obeyed strict 10 p.m. parietals, and used either the Radcliffe library or Widener, never Lamont. In Widener, they were warned not to walk down the center aisle of the reading room so as not to draw excessive attention. Many members of the Class of '54 seemed to pin their hopes on meeting and marrying a Harvard man, although The Crimson reported, in September 1951, Radcliffe women faced stiff competition from their more "genteel...
Skow approached Baker at his Nantucket Island retreat, where he found the columnist on his knees, plucking crab grass from a walk, and looking every bit the compulsive suburbanite sometimes mirrored in his column. Skow spent two days with the Baker family. He toured the island, shared the view from a widow's walk atop the house, and discovered that his 17-year impression of Baker was correct. Reports Skow: "He is not a performer. He is a man who lives very much inside his own head, a thoughtful conversationalist who would just as soon listen as talk...
Convinced that they were the dominant force in ousting the Shah, the oil workers feel that they are being neglected by the revolutionary government. They are insisting on 50% to 100% wage increases and are threatening to walk out if they do not get them. Members of the workers' council have been demanding sweeping changes in management. But when NIOC Chief Hassan Nazih fired six of the top directors in April, the rest of the top management resigned en masse in protest, forcing Nazih abjectly to ask everyone back. The refinery simply could not run without them. The workers...
Baker writhes, frets, then decides to take a walk. A few steps away from his door he hears a whizz-splatt...
...school athletes who quickly succumb to the pressures of life off the field at Harvard. They withdraw from Cambridge, perhaps never to be heard from again. They come here thinking that it will somehow all fall into place for them as it did in high school, where they were walking idols. But the Beaulieus and the Cuccias walk away disillusioned and disenchanted, swallowed up by an intellectual environment where passing and shooting aren't worth any points on an exam...