Word: stockyards
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...park's site originally held the MBTA's car barns, and was used by the MBTA as a stockyard during the rennovation of the Harvard Square T-station...
...miles west of the town named after ol' Horace, between Routes 257 and 14, there's a one gas-station village called Severance Inhabited mostly by stockyard workers. Severance would be easily forgettable of it weren't for Bruce...
Down on the floor of the Sistine Chapel, it is winter tourist business as usual: the slow, noisy shuffling of packed bodies, as in a stockyard whose animals are all looking to heaven; the cricked necks, the bellowing guides, the august patterns on the remote ceiling. Up on the scaffolding, where the restorers are at work, things look quite different. The noise has receded; it is more like a hum of bees. The frescoes have moved forward, monopolizing one's whole field of attention, swollen, enormous in their intensity...
...perhaps unprecedented for the two to join in their moral outrage. But last week, both President Bok and Dean of the College John B. Fox Jr. '59 issued strongly worded statement denouncing the now infamous Pi Eta Speakers Club newsletter, which droolingly depicted an upcoming party as a stockyard slaughter with the women guests playing the livestock. And Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner this week issued her own condemnation of the newsletter. Fox wrote that "the letter makes a mockery of basic standards of civility, which the College takes seriously." Bok concurred that "tasteless and grossly insensitive references to groups...
...editions of almost anything, the opening installments of NewsHour were ragged. Admitted Executive Producer Lester Crystal, a former president of NBC News, "There is a great deal of smoothing out to be done." Among the snags: "mini-documentaries" on organ transplants and on the decline of a Kansas City stockyard seemed more like unedited slices of life than stories with news pegs, and "video postcards" of nature scenes and Americana reinforced the show's occasional aura of untimeliness...