Word: yard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ishikawa resents the Summer School's reputation as Camp Harvard. "Although I understand the appellation, I think it's kind of unfair," he says. "Pre-college students are pretty well screened beforehand and the whole character of the Yard naturally becomes a bit more relaxed with the good weather...
...legend is that one Rhinehart, who had no friends, lived in the Yard. So he would run outside and yell his name, then dash up to his room and answer the call...
Over the subsequent years, in the Spring when the juices were flowing and everybody was bored with studying, someone would start the call in the Yard. Immediately it resounded throughout and was the rallying cry for, shall I say, "simple mayhem...
...away with some cheating, it would not be very important. "The Soviets have a class of sea-launched cruise missiles. They could covertly extend those missiles' range. But the significance of their being able to do that is very small. You can go down to the Brooklyn Navy Yard and see the U.S. class of cruise missiles that the Soviets have. They're like our Snarks, which are outside in the rain; we've taken them out of our force because they are inefficient...
Such tactics must seem like small potatoes to former Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II, who this spring had a 4,000-gal. underground tank installed in the front yard of his four-acre McLean, Va., estate. The tank should ensure him enough gas to travel about 10,000 miles a year for seven years in a standard six-cylinder sedan. So many of Middendorf s prosperous neighbors prudently followed suit that last week the Fairfax, Va., Board of Supervisors adopted an emergency ordinance prohibiting any further tank installations...