Word: overheard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DISCUSSIONS of reunification, however, can expose several misconceptions about German attitudes, politics and the international context of the reunification. The following are five rather curious views of the German situation, all read or overheard on campus in the past weeks...
...from the usual 100 or so, though such arrests were a low police priority that evening. Countless residents grabbed flashlights to direct traffic at intersections where signal lights had stopped. In the seedy Mission district of San Francisco, a woman carrying two flashlights, precious as gold under the circumstances, overheard two men discuss stealing one. In a rare spirit of camaraderie, they refrained...
...When a development office secretary from the Medical School tried to put a Crimson reporter on hold last week, circuits must have crossed. The reporter ended up on the line with the first secretary and another from Med School Dean Daniel C. Tosteson's office. Here's what was overheard...
...Harvard good, Duke bad. Is that fair? Let's suppose that I, having only been at Harvard a few days, walked into a common room of one of these university's grand houses and overheard some male students referring to a woman as a girl, or making racial slurs, or even claiming that another region of the country has no culture. (I think we can all agree that this is not an inconceivable scenario.) Let's further suppose that I already knew some things about Harvard--say, that this University still has money invested in South Africa, while Duke divested...
...would be more interesting if he did it before a large crowd," said Lenny C. Dang '90, who overheard Karol at the next table in the Quincy House dining hall...