Word: abandons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wave of late 20th century construction, Harvard's commissioned architects, some of them world famous, decided to abandon red brick and take a few risks. Many students consider the results to be some of the ugliest buildings ever constructed...
...will we, once again, abandon our children to the wasteland...
Still, the segregation of the two is a tempting, and even a feasible, alternative in a university setting. This response is less satisfactory on the personal level. Feeling the necessity of action yet admiring the benefits of intellectual questioning. I want to abandon neither. Maintaining both qualities will be , I think, one of the great challenges in life...
...academic conference, Ruth couldn't escape a little secondhand psychoanalysis. "The Babe's id appears to have been relatively unimpeded in its quest for satisfaction," maintained Adam Cox of Lehigh University's psychology department. "Through sex and food, Ruth nurtured the unresolved aspects of his infantile self with abandon." Buddy Hassett, who played for Ruth when he coached Brooklyn in 1938, revealed the true secret of the Babe's gluttony: "He had a great digestive system." As the Babe might have said if he had had the vocabulary: deconstruct that...
...decision pitting tradition against technological progress, Harvard administrators chose Wednesday to abandon a plan to install a communications satellite on the roof of Massachusetts Hall...