Word: yardful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Students may take advantage of this price reduction by presenting bursar's cards or other evidence of enrollment in school, college, or summer school when purchasing tickets at the Festival's Sever Hall office, in the Yard...
While the search for Grivas went on, the British government continued in public to strike as unrelenting an attitude as ever. In London a detachment of Scotland Yard men rounded up roly-poly Father Kallinikos Macheriotis, Cyprus-born abbot of a Greek Rite church, as he cooked his solitary supper of beef and eggs, and deported him summarily to Greece. The angriest questions of Labor M.P.s failed to wring from government ministers any more than the bare statement that his activities "went beyond any legitimate ecclesiastical duties and were not in the public interest." Despite this unyielding attitude in public...
...killings took place so soon after the shooting that they could be blamed on the heat of the battle. But the last score were formal executions, carried out mostly against insurgent military men. The condemned, blindfolded, stood against the wall late at night in barracks' squares or the yard of the National Penitentiary, and eight-man volunteer firing squads (four with live ammunition, four with blanks) shot them...
Birth Pains. Compared to most citadels of high finance, Eugene Black's World Bank is as odd as a platypus in a poultry yard. In its slabsided headquarters in Washington, D.C., it does not even have a vault. Once, when money was left lying around-$30,000 in travel funds-it was promptly stolen by a thief who made a clean getaway. The World Bank was born at the 1944 Bretton Woods Conference,*almost as an afterthought to its sister institution, the International Monetary Fund, set up to deal with the temporary "disequilibrium" in world currency-exchange rates...
...University will award academic degrees to 2,977 students, including 998 Bachelor of Arts degrees. All told, more than 15,000 degree candidates, alumni, families, and friends will crowd into the Yard to witness the proceedings...