Word: saying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning, the University can make a definite sign of its commitment to solve the problem by following up on its anouncement of Tuesday night, and agreeing to a specific percentage goal for employment of blacks in construction jobs-one comparable to the percentage in the adjacent population, say 10 to 12 per cent. Achieving even this increase in employment will be no small task; insisting on a commitment to the admittedly arbitrary-and perhaps nearly impossible to achieve-20 per cent goal seems pointless...
With tongue in cheek, Christianity Today noted the renascence of a fine old Puritan practice. In Pottstown, Pa., teen-agers have banded together in the Society to Bring Back Bundling as a distinct improvement over the variable climate and other distractions of, say, the drive-in theater and dead-end street. Reports the magazine: "Parents and preachers, roused by a badly bungled moral code, banned bundling; better heating in larger homes cooled it. Bundling has been rekindled by a spark from a new moral code." Said the president of the Pottstown bundlers: "In many colleges, boys and girls today...
...devoted only one paragraph to the costs of education among his pages of questions about it, but the paragraph is an important one. It asks the House proposals "to be realistic, in the sense of at least giving consideration to cost differentials among alternative proposals." While May did not say so, it seems probable that the funds available for undergraduate instruction can only be shuffled around, not significantly increased, in an era when the Faculty is already running a hefty deficit on its all-important Unrestricted Account (the money which can be spent anywhere within the Faculty). Such a limitation...
...looked up. Perhaps I had misunderstood her, with the accent.... I decided not to say anything...
What could I say to follow a line like that? I started to rise...