Word: went
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days it was arty to say that you went to school not only to learn things but also to find out who you are. People talk about such things at commencement time. By now, the Class of 1969 has heard quite a few times who it is (as if a whole class could be a "who"). We are probably the most written about class in history. The media and our parents and various other old people have been telling us who we are for a long time--or they ask us, "Who are you anyway?" "Why are you kids doing...
...next summer I went to Russia with Doug and some other fellows who eventually came to Harvard. We were calm and detached and liberal. We thought that the Russians had a very low standard of living, but, alas, they did not realize it. They had made great strides in half a century, yes. But at what cost? That is the way we talked then. Doug and I wanted to be foreign service officers. Harvard would be good for that, we thought...
...next six games, the contest was a standoff; one expert described it as a battle between "the young tiger who jumps on his prey and the old crocodile who waits for the right moment for the decisive blow." Then, in the crucial 19th game, Spassky quickly went to the attack and, with a flurry of brilliant closing moves, crushed the old crocodile...
Died. Clint Murchison Sr., 74, epitome of the Texas wheeler-dealer and one of the world's wealthiest men; of a heart attack; in Athens, Texas. Murchison went into wildcat drilling in his 20s, borrowing and trading for new wells ("financing by finaglin'," he called it), and soon was bringing in wells at a rate of 40 a year. By 1925, at age 30, he was worth $5,000,000, and he had hardly started. Leaping from venture to venture, merging and consolidating, he expanded into railroads, buslines and publishing until at one point he was said...
...meetings-fast-changing, impoverished postwar Germany as it struggled to survive the chaos of surrender. Absorbed in private rancors, busy reshuffling peoples and national borders, the Allied statesmen paid little heed to the German scene. Historians have tended to follow their lead. Yet the obscure skirmishes for power that went on in Berlin and Munich may have done almost as much as the Versailles Treaty to shape the future course of Germany and Europe. The far left was pitted against the far right with hapless moderates caught in a dreadful crossfire...