Word: redness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wrestling two Division III opponents last night was the perfect warmup for Harvard as it heads into its biggest challenge of the season against the Big Red Saturday...
...Nixon is not the driven, tortured, fascinating schemer of popular memory or Watergate fame. In fact, that career-ending scandal merits only six pages at the book's close. Instead, Parmet paints Nixon as a regular guy, a mediator between the forces of welfare statism and cold war red bashing. Every rap against the former President -- from his 1952 slush fund to the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam -- is thoroughly ventilated and, in most cases, dismissed. Nixon, says Parmet, was merely a child of his times, who "harnessed the unease that lay just below the surface of celebratory...
...Beaty grew up outside Sacramento, where, he recalls, "the boys in my neighborhood could barely wait to turn twelve -- the magic age that qualified us to own a .22-cal. single-shot rifle. Taking an N.R.A. marksmanship and safety class was as much a part of the environment as Red Cross swimming lessons...
...anger. Dozens of environmental groups have staged demonstrations against dirty steel mills, hazardous chemical factories and suspect nuclear reactors. Even the Kremlin has joined the demonstrations. At last year's Nov. 7 parade commemorating the Russian Revolution, official floats carrying such slogans as GIVE US CLEAN AIR moved through Red Square along with the usual rockets and tanks...
...ALWAYS found the concept of insomnia unimaginable. I came to college with three alarm clocks set five minutes apart from each other on opposite sides of the room. Lucky enough to get a single in my freshman year, I regularly slept through a bright-red screaming buzzer that once caused my proctor to call the fire department. The smell of coffee embedded itself in the walls. I don't remember a month of my life when I wasn't tired...