Word: hours
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...half-hour rally broke out at approximatly five minutes before 1 p.m. Students said the loud drums, which could be heard on Mass. Ave., disturbed classes in nearby Sever Hall, disrupting mid-term exams and discussion sections...
They kept to a vegetarian diet that contained less than 10% fat and banned all oils. At twice-weekly meetings, a psychologist held group support sessions. Everyone was taught stress-management techniques, including yoga, and was told to spend an hour a day meditating, visualizing arteries unclogging, and doing relaxation and breathing drills. Smoking was prohibited and moderate exercise recommended...
...when Ike was denied the right to go trick-or-treating on Halloween with his brothers, his temper overwhelmed him. He ran outside and pummeled a tree until his small fists were torn and bleeding. He went to bed and sobbed for an hour. His mother came in, salved and bandaged his hands, then explained the futility of uncontrolled anger: "He that conquereth his own soul is greater than he who taketh a city." Much later Ike claimed that was "one of the most valuable moments of my life." Five times in 1954 when he was President, there were emotional...
...Everett ("Swede") Hazlett, son of an Abilene physician who lived in the affluent part of town. In his exuberance Ike rounded up companions for baseball, football and camping from anyplace. His most famous fistfight was with Wes Merrifield, and according to Ike himself, the fight went more than an hour, ended in a draw when both boys were exhausted. The two got along out of necessity after that...
...Talk Show, a syndicated late-night half-hour, is homemade in a literal sense. The premise is a throwback to that old Mary Hartman spinoff, Fernwood 2-Night: a housewife (Cynthia Stevenson) in the little town of Derby, Wis., has turned her living room into the set for a nightly talk show. It's a homey affair: her brother-in-law is the announcer; gray-haired Mrs. Battle, her old school nurse, is musical director; neighbors drop by to chat. So do real-life celebrities such as William Shatner and Florence Henderson...