Word: aves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson rowed a strong race, "settling in at a 32," seven man John MacEachern said, "which felt good all the way down the course." Although one part of the course--the powerhouse stretch just past the Western Ave. bridge--gave them problems, the crowd helped restore the boat's rhythm as it covered the three-mile course...
...lone figure, hands buried in his pockets, fumbles around the bend in Mass. Ave. near Dudley House. Hunched and weaving, he eyes the line of about a half dozen cabs that doze up ahead. Arthur watches the man as he nears the first cab, hesitates for a moment, then staggers...
...Square first and, if there isn't a long line of cabs idling there already, he'll wait for his first fare. But like a nocturnal scavenger, Arthur doesn't like to wait, and when he finds about a dozen lethargic cabbies along the curb of Mass Ave, he speeds across the Commons to the cabbie stand at the Sheraton Commander. But Arthur's strategy, he knows, is a game of chance. "Sometimes you can just kind of die at a stand. I could pull in there and have to wait and by then I might have had a fare...
Even the most discriminating of drivers can't always spot a potential jumper, as Arthur knows. "The worst fare I ever got burned on was about $60. This old guy had hit every bar on Mass Ave., up and down. He'd go into the bar for about an hour. He'd ask me if I wanted a beer. I'd say I just wanted my money; he'd tell me to keep the meter running. He started out with about $80, but by the time he was done he was crocked and broke. I took a check from...
Belgian Fudge's outlet in the Garage in Harvard Square closed last spring, and the Mass Ave store began selling factory-produced ice cream in April. The store resumed selling handmade ice cream as soon as it moved ice cream manufacturing machinery from its headquarter to the Mass Ave store...