Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...leaves Currier House at 11:45 a. m., just lucky enough to pass by a row of workmen who have quit work for lunch. All six of them immediately stop eating to stare at her, whistle, and make obscene remarks under their breaths. Since she is a brunette, they have no way of greeting her. If her hair were blond or red, they could have screamed, "Hey, blondie" or "Hey, red," and razzed her just that much more...
...KHRUSHCHEV: "During a walk in the park we go aboard a boat. Khrushchev shouts, 'Kosygin, your turn to row, as usual!' I ask the Soviet Premier, 'But when do you work? You are constantly traveling or granting long interviews. What time do you have left for studying your dossiers?' Khrushchev replied: 'But I don't work. A Central Committee decree prescribes that after 65-I am 66 years old-one works only six hours a day four days a week. That is just enough for my trips and my audiences. They...
...Back-Row Obscenities. Sheer expansion, though, was hardly sufficient to meet the minority group pressure. In essence, C.U.N.Y.'s dilemma was whether it should go on picking only proven academic winners-or let in everyone who might benefit from a college education. In fact, Bowker already had a prototype solution: a five-year-old program for giving low-income high school graduates a chance at C.U.N.Y. The "College Discovery" project recruited, counseled, tutored and paid disadvantaged kids as much as $50 a week while they attended C.U.N.Y.'s community colleges. SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge...
...teeth were full of cavities." Violent headaches were common, until teachers realized that many students were too poor to buy needed eyeglasses. Even with glasses, they took a dim view of standard English courses rich in Henry James and Christina Rossetti, whose polished phrases merely provoked bored back-row obscenities...
...Crimson looked weak in the third quarter. Hampered by a fifteen-mile-per-hour wind. Foster threw five incomplete passes in a row, and Harvard went nowhere...