Word: weres
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The last theft at the museum was in 1973, when a collection of Greek and Roman coins was stolen. Almost all of those pieces were eventually recovered.
Vlad Georgescu, a Romanian historian, had more opportunities than most of his countrymen. As a professor in Romania, he was able to travel to the West and meet regularly with intellectuals and scholars at American universities such as Columbia and Berkeley. This contact with Western thinkers gave him unique support...
But if Georgescu managed to escape this fate through his Western contacts, he is "very pessimistic for the future of professors and students who remain in socialist Romania." Until 1974 many intellectuals sincerely believed that something good could be expected from the regime. Most were willing to "give it a...
I had always been wary of hard drugs. They destroyed the mind, killed people... The swinging sixties had been a time when all that mattered was instant pleasure regardless of dire warnings and danger; now, it seemed, we were to pay for our hedonism.
The meet results generally supported Walsh's preseason expectations, although there were a few surprises, particularly Chen's impressive 2nd place performances in the 50 and 100-yd. breaststroke.