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...commented. He made the voyage from Jamaica Plain to Cambridge Common last Saturday morning to continue the cycle of violence that has recently plagued Harvard Square. His and roughly a thousand others’ weapons of choice? Pillows. Despite the ferocity of his battle cries (“Ahoy! Avast!”), this was Mendilow’s first time participating in International Pillow Fight...
...ocean waterfalls (very odd, that bit), exchanging broadsides while being whirled about in a maelstrom. It is very exhausting, and it makes no sense whatsoever. From time to time the action stops dead in order for the actors to sneer and bellow at one another-lots of traditional "Avast me hearties" dialogue, which tends to remind us that Errol Flynn and his hammy crews used to do this sort of thing with more brio and fewer special effects...
...choice before the American people is the vast difference in experience, avast difference in philosophy and, yes, a vastdifference in character," Bush said late in theday. "Character matters...
...were about to be trapped, mobbed and burned by ferocious hordes of Smith women too long victimized by male invaders. "No!" we would scream, as they tied us to the stake, "No! We're not marauders. We are but simple voyagers to the innocent days of fourth grade past. Avast, ye scurvy broads, we bring not lechery and disease, but valentines and tootsie-roll pops." Well, maybe we wouldn't say that, but it was a hell of a scenario. Meanwhile, the little Animal House devil was dancing before our minds, urging us on towards the dorm...
Last spring, the Undergraduate Council proposedthat the College purchase computers for wordprocessing use because, they said, there was avast distinction between writing papers on acomputer and using a typewriter...