Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that October's total of 409 battle deaths was the lowest monthly toll since 1966. Nixon stressed that a low "level of enemy activity" must accompany U.S. withdrawal. Even as he spoke, the enemy stepped up its activities in what U.S. officers described as the beginning of the winter offensive. Communist units launched scattered attacks, and Saigon's defenses were hit for the first time since September...
...report last winter, the Wilson Committee said that "three per cent of the University's 13,000 workers are black." Ever since then, several groups have cited the figure as evidence of Harvard's failure...
...four o'clock yesterday afternoon, there was only standing room left at the Indoor Athletic Building. The word had been spread that Harvard has a superteam in freshman basketball this winter, and anyone who even remotely cared about the sport was there...
...heyday, the style was simply called "modernist" or "Moderne." But Clothes Designer Lewis Winter, one of the style's leading collectors, makes a distinction between Deco and Moderne. From 1918 to 1925, when Paris held a mammoth International Exposition of Decorative Arts, the style was more Deco, which he defines as graceful, rococo and curvilinear. From 1925 until 1939, the look modified into Moderne, which was chunkier and more geometric, as in a silver tea service designed by Britain's Charles Boyton. In Winter's living room, a black and gold painted panel for a post-office...
...really want to be a politician," Shultz says. "Basically I regard myself as a professional person." It is perhaps that professional detachment that allowed him to refrain from intervening in a two-month strike of East Coast longshoremen last winter. On a visit to New York at the height of the strike, he made a point of ordering bananas for dessert-to show that the strike had a minimal effect on the normal flow of goods...