Word: cramming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavily mortgaged $190,000 home in the Maryland suburbs and is driven in a Government-owned Lincoln by a Secret Service agent to a tan town house across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. There, with a staff of eight, he sorts the 400 cartons of his papers that cram the three floors of the narrow building and overflow into another house next door...
...Carnegie or Rockefeller. Wells was born in 1866 to a fanatically fundamentalist mother and a relatively impotent cricket-playing father perched ominously close to the bottom rung of a socially immobile ladder of Victorian society. Relying mostly on his raw intelligence, voracious reading habits, and an outstanding ability to cram, Wells was able to avoid the draper's life his mother had so carefully planned for him. 'Bertie' was the youngest child--spoiled, frail, and often "dreamy." Later in life, this same dreamy imagination would spring Wells into the public eye via his scientific romances. Fro the time being...
...nicely. The trouble is a lack of literate lunatics like, say, Hecht and MacArthur among the screenwriters; a lack of directors like, say, Howard Hawks, who can get to the point and then stick to it until the last laugh has been squeezed out. Sometimes such people tried to cram too much into too small a space. But it is far easier -and more fun-for the moviegoer to try to absorb too much than to try to keep his spirit up while hiking through a blank space...
Enrichment Program. Some medical schools, understaffed in the basic sciences and fully occupied with training qualified students, have had to let minority students succeed or fail virtually on their own. One of the most notable exceptions is Harvard University. Since 1969 it has been running a special summer cram course to teach science and biology to black, Puerto Rican and Chicano undergraduates from other colleges. The purpose of this unique enrichment program: to help members of minority groups get into medical school-and stay there...
...Refugees cram the city's once spacious environs, building their temporary houses of wood and palm leaves along the boulevards like so many hot-dog stands on the way to the Rose Bowl. But this is not a game. About 3,000 wives and children of the richer families have already fled to France and their European bank accounts. Yet Phnom-Penh is far from chaos. The Khmers do not panic easily...