Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approximately 1:30 a.m. several members of the agenda committee received word that Afro and SDS would possibly occupy a building if the strike were not continued. At this point no proposals had been received from such prostrate groups nor had they communicated a desire to speak to the meeting. Several of the members of the committee including myself thereupon voiced the opinion that if such pro-strike groups were not accorded places to speak in the agenda they might result in the closing of the University, an outcome which all of us dreaded...
...like to say a good word about the Helen Frankenthaler piece [March 28]. If all art criticism were written on that level of intelligence, readability and acuteness, we'd be a better-informed public. Too often the critics drown themselves and their ideas in a swirling sea of rhetoric intelligible to a favored few, sometimes only...
...immediate cause of the blowup was the disclosure of a 43-page confidential staff memorandum advising Kennedy to focus television coverage "on native poverty contrasted with the affluence of Government installations" in Alaska. The memo suggested that the word "colonialism" would describe the situation...
...they will draw the most publicity. In Florida, the promotion manager of one oil company personally chose the two stations to receive winning tickets for the top prizes-two cars -and told dealers to issue them to a customer from a college or local company so that the good word would get around. The more popular the game, the deeper the gouging. Tickets went so fast in one game that the company had to put in a rush order for "200,000 additional losers...
...March, 1968, I telephoned the sponsoring B.A.A. to tell them I'd be there on Patriots' Day. I was greeted, if that's the appropriate word, by that Scottish voice so familiar to runners around Boston. I was talking to Jock Semple. I felt a certain sense of excitement. But I didn't give him the satisfaction of letting him know that I knew who he was. "I'd like to run in the Marathon. What is the procedure for entering? I'm a college student...