Word: customs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incidentally, I learn that little groups of brave souls, collected for a National College Theatre Festival, or some such, will be trying just that, and I break hoary stage custom to wish them just "good luck...
...finally happened to Harvard, too. In a sequence of confrontations that has now become a deplorable custom on American campuses, a small band of student rebels seized an administration building to protest university policies and to deliberately provoke a crisis. Police were then summoned to oust the intruders; moderate students, angered at both the fact of the "bust" and what they felt was police brutality, were radicalized into organizing a strike. The three-day boycott of classes was the first in the modern history of a venerable institution that prides itself on its devotion to learning and the rational resolution...
...this time, when the question of amnesty for those involved in the occupation of University Hall is being debated on all sides, it is perhaps not out of place to remind the Harvard community of the centuries old custom of granting amnesty to political prisoners on royal occasions...
...undaunted; they had a secret weapon that had never failed to take the day-marbles hand-carved from the finest porcelain commodes. Toucan Captain Len Smith, 50, winner of nine world championships, explained that only porcelain gives the "tolley" (shooter) the proper heft and feel. Every Toucan tolley is custom carved to fit the knuckle, but none has a diameter greater than .75 in.-the dimension prescribed by the British Marbles Board of Control...
Britain's diplomats in Washington do not count among Embassy Row's real swingers, even though Freeman will enjoy an annual entertainment allowance of $96,000. Disliking cocktail parties, he prefers dinners for a score of guests or fewer, a custom that will not devalue the cachet that Washington society has always attached to invitations embossed with the lion and unicorn of Britain. As a man who professes to enjoy most of all "lurking round the edges of politics," Ambassador Freeman is bound to find plenty of entertainment in Byzantium-on-the-Potomac...