Word: yard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undercover men also had let their hair and beards grow long and scraggly. They dressed shabbily and took on menial jobs-yard work, house painting, truck loading-that did not demand Social Security cards, driver's licenses or other forms of identification that could have been traced by the militants' friends...
...many more are in different stages of planning. The latest and largest municipality to join the switch to garbage power is New York City, which in December announced that it was negotiating with Manhattan-based Ashmont Systems to build a plant on the grounds of the former Brooklyn Navy Yard. The facility would take in 2,400 tons of garbage a day and supply heat and electricity for nearby industrial users. Earlier the city began talks with another firm, Combustion Equipment Associates, Inc. (CEA), to construct in a different part of Brooklyn a similar plant that would...
...born Casimir Buchinsky, the ninth of 15 children of a Russian-Lithuanian coal-mining family, in Ehrenfeld, Pa., in what he calls "the hard times." The family slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing an older sister's hand-me-down dress and chewing tobacco to compensate for the skirt. "I come from a harder life than most characters I play," he explains with...
...seniors graduate from Harvard College, trampling and tearing up the carefully and expensively manicured lawns of Harvard Yard in the process. In his Commencement Address, Freddie Laker comments, "The line for the airbus forms right behind the Phi Beta Kappa procession." Honorary degrees are awarded to John Travolta, Nona Hendryx, Alex Haley, Jann Wenner, Larry Flynt, and Jack Ford. The highlight of the ceremony is a stand-off duel between the clam serving as Mayor of Cambridge and the "rootless" Yale Bladderball...
President Derek Bok announces a clambake for Cambridge senior citizens in Harvard Yard. The Mayor of Cambridge says he is "not amused" and announces the formation of a "clamshell alliance" in response to Bok's announcement...