Word: plodding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beginning with President Lowell's active administration in 1900, the CRIMSON began to dig itself out of several ruts. Action pictures began to appear, and the typographical format was livened up. Editorials ceased to plod along, and news copy was generally sharper...
...Jones launched into / Want a Woman, and a chic brunette leaped atop a table and offered herself. Part of the act? Perhaps. Another woman tossed her room key onto the stage. If that was part of the act, her husband knew nothing about it: red-faced, he had to plod backstage later to retrieve...
...best solution. The reform is already under way. Drill, euphemistically known as "leadership laboratory," has been officially halved to an hour a week by both the Army and Navy, and will probably be eliminated entirely. The brass is well aware that undergraduates can no longer be made to plod through four years of weekly close-order rituals to master what basic trainees learn in the first few days of boot camp. Admits a high-ranking Army ROTC officer in the Pentagon: "Leadership laboratory may well be the program's worst enemy...
Died. Enid Blyton, seventyish, prolific British author of calm, cozy children's books; of a coronary thrombosis; in a London hospital. Despite criticism that her work was sentimental, few bedtimes were complete without a story about Toyland, inhabited by Little Noddy the Pixie and Mr. Plod the Policeman. She authored some 400 titles (translated into 33 languages), and her sales in Britain alone topped the 85 million mark...
...confederate plan seemed--and still seems--the only way to permit tribal hatreds to cool and perhaps pave the way for a real accomodation later. But Gowon did not budge, and Nigeria foundered. Now, as federal troops plod through the Biafran jungles, Nigeria still has not drawn up a viable plan for reunification...