Word: welds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Freshman Week itself never really changes, and the masses of people milling in and around Weld Saturday night didn't look much different from the same crowd two years ago. The women wore more makeup, it seemed (and of course there were more of them), and the men seemed to have shorter hair, but the topics of conversation remained the same...
People drift around, looking for others to talk to. Some wear a look of cultivated superiority, others look drunk, others just look lonely. Groups of strangers form, usually centered around one or two women, and dissolve just as quickly. In the Weld foyer, a few erstwhile musicians bring out guitars. Soon they are joined by a flautist, and they begin to play: "Heart of Gold," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Johnny B. Goode," and "The Boxer...
...cornering women, on getting them away from possible competitors, but they rarely succeed. The ratio isn't that good yet, apparently. No one remembers names. Someone actually asked his companion what his SATs were. A guy wearing a Lacoste shirt (the international symbol of preppiness) climbs the stairs in Weld North, claiming he is "trying to perfect his preppie image...
...some mines. In these circumstances, U.S. firms were not all that upset three weeks ago when 40,000 copper workers seeking higher wages shut down the mines in a strike that may drag on through Labor Day. Laments Copper Industry Analyst George Cleaver of New York's White Weld & Co.: "The U.S. industry has had three years of poverty and is entering its fourth...
...students returning to pick up careers that had been interrupted by service in Europe or in the Pacific: the men from the Pacific theater sometimes still had that yellow pallor that came from taking atabrine, an early anti-malarial drug. A boy down the hall from me in Weld had escaped with his mother from the Warsaw ghetto. That fall the indoor gym for a while was filled with cots to acommodate the sudden influx of returning soldiers--occupation troops from Europe or MacArthur's command...