Word: rowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...courts. After last week's decision, the Bergen County prosecutors responsible for a new trial conceded the difficulty of gathering witnesses and evidence more than 14 years after the crime was committed. Smith is finally close to the freedom he sought so long from a cell on death row...
...Harvard was at once triumphal and antagonizing. He now had an immense coterie of associates, contacts, and patron saints in the outside world. His calendar was always full, and he continually angered students and colleagues by postponing their appointments as many as four or five times in a row. The unattractive twin pillars of his personality-insecurity coupled with unlimited intellectual arrogance-had been reinforced by the competitions and successes in the outside world...
Burnett does more than row. A novice mountain climber, he intends to scale the Matterhorn this summer after the crew's European tour. Besides that. Burnett and some friends have developed a Sha Na Na routine which they perform at some of the more exquisite Lowell House parties...
...condemned men and women are expected to go to the gas chamber before late summer at the earliest. Ohio's Governor John Gilligan refused to be prodded at all by the court's decision. He flatly barred executions in his state, where 52 persons wait on death row, until the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the death penalty itself...
...popularity is bizarre; his work, in one sense, is not popular at all. You cannot go into a department store and buy a print of a Warhol. But go down a couple of floors and they proliferate among the groceries: row after row of Brillo cartons, absurd ziggurats of Mott's apple juice and Del Monte peaches towering up under the flat strip lighting. By now nobody who has seen a Warhol can enter a supermarket without the hallucinatory and even monstrous feeling that life is imitating art and that the principle of repetition and meaningless abundance on which...