Word: winterful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been three years since Sherman Holcombe made any news that the Crimson though it should print. Maybe almost all the people who once knew the story of his fights for better working conditions and fair treatment are gone, und no one really remembers quite what happened in the early winter that was my freshman year. But I think, if only for the fact that he was a good man, and that his death means a loss for anyone who knew him, Sherman should be remembered. His honesty and courage--and those aren't hollow words--were, and continue...
Then came Britain's winter of discontent, in which a wave of strikes badly tarnished Labor's image as the only party capable of dealing with the powerful trade unions. The strikes took on a personal note for Britons, as garbage piled up in the streets, and schools and hospitals in many cities either shut down or operated part-time; in an action that offended the country's sense of decency and fair play, ambulance drivers went on strike, putting life itself at risk. By the end of a nasty winter, Callaghan's popularity had been...
...foreign exchange from the have-not nations of the Third World, the cartel also moved to allow individual members to stick on whatever price-gouging surcharges and premiums they think they can get away with. That made official policy a tactic that many producing countries have been following all winter anyway. Finally, as if to add insult to financial injury, the OPEC representatives went out of their way to try to put the blame for the increase on the industrial countries, which they chide for not curbing both energy consumption and the inflation that is eroding the value of their...
...other schools, Brown automatically sends a letter to everyone with board scores over 650 in selected zip-code areas, many of them urban ghettos. The competition for top minority students is fierce. "A black with 650 verbals can heat his house for the winter with college catalogues," says Rogers. Brown's black applicant pool steadily declined from a high of over 700 in 1971 to 374 two years ago. Thanks to a recruiting push, more than 500 applied this year; of them about 200 will get in. Some will be risks: "Elaine," for instance, has board scores below...
...that disagreement will lead Harvard from a relatively mild winter into a stormy proxy season...