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First stop is Thayer Hall basement: Headquarters. Tacked up on the wall behind and above the head of the porter captain with the watchful eyes, there is a sign that reads: THOU SHALT NOT DRAG THE VACUUM CLEANERS. The captain sports an understandable frown considering the hour, "It's only eight o'clock," he says. "I have a nine o'clock class, wanna get it over with," the student porter answers. "You're supposed to work two hours in a row, it's not good to split it up like this." "I know." says the student porter as the captain...

Author: By Tom Wright, | Title: Bab-O, Brooms, and Toilet Bowls | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...that more radical Arabs, such as the Iraqis and the Libyans, may make further inroads in a country that Syria would like to keep strictly within its own sphere of influence. An unstable or radical Arab regime in Lebanon would not only increase Syrian defense burdens but quite possibly drag Assad into unwanted new confrontations with Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: The Patience of Job | 5/3/1976 | See Source »

...roll and drag and claw like a bitch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

...story was written by Senior Writer Michael Demarest and edited by Leon Jaroff. Demarest's experience with fashion predates the American look and the miniskirt. In fact, it goes back to his boyhood days in London when his mother, he says, "would occasionally drag me to fittings at her dressmaker's." In Demarest's recollection, "these were marvelous occasions. I knew nothing about fashion and cared less, but the vision of half-clad ladies gliding mysteriously to and fro was something to treasure during the long months of all-male boarding schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

...They have canned Algerian orange juice there, which is really a drag. But you get used to those kind of things. You learn to tolerate them," Schecter says. although he didn't like some of the food, Schecter says, he cultivated--as a young teen-ager in a strange land--a taste for caviar and vodka while there...

Author: By Michael L.silk, | Title: A Harvard Son Writes His Memoirs On Mother Russia | 3/17/1976 | See Source »

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