Word: woods
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Some women chose to avoid the restrictions of Barnard, Eliot and Comstock by moving off-campus. "I liked living off-campus because it was a little less cloistered. On campus you were expected to follow schedules all of the time," says Beverly Helbling Wood '61, a radiologist...
Despite the restrictions Radcliffe students lived under, many alumnae praise the college for providing the best education possible given the times. "The school was very supportive of academic endeavors, unlike most schools at the time," says Wood, now a professor of radiology at the University of Rochester...
...negotiating meetings, administrators told the students that they would "not forcibly remove the shanties." However, they asked the students voluntarily to move the wood-and-garbage-bag structures to another site...
...election this year. Despite his long insistence that it would be self-defeating to run for Governor in 1986 and then turn around and run for President, he did not rule out a try for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988. Standing behind a lectern in a high- ceilinged, wood-paneled room near his office at the state capitol, a composed and confident Cuomo said, "I have decided to run for Governor. I have no plans to run for the presidency." When reporters pressed him about 1988, Cuomo tap-danced around their questions...
...brass plaque embedded in the wood of what is now known as the surrender deck memorializes that moment in Tokyo Bay: 0908, Sept. 2, 1945. V-J day. The conclusion of World War II. "Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always," MacArthur told Americans huddled around radios in darkness half a world away...