Word: backed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scanty audience increased in its passivity, a small and amateur claque caused a good bit of rustling and unrest in the back of the hall, distracting the audience and perhaps insulting it by hoots of enthusiasm that the paying customers could not share. If he's any sort of professional (and the program claims he certainly is), Mr.Murray, the director, should take these urchins across his knee...
...months. One day while she was having lunch he had gone right into her cubicle and learned her name from her books. She had small handwriting. And then he had left everything just as it was, and never said anything. Sometimes he'd stop working and just watch the back of her hair net.) This was too good to miss now, having her see him right there getting a shoeshine...
Business, for the most part, is nearly back to normal in Havana. The tourists are slowly returning to the suffering hotels, as they realize that the fighting and danger are over. The exotic Cuban climate is as alluring as ever, the ubiquitous busses driven by mad geniuses called guageros zoom miraculously through narrow city streets, and the colorful street vendors tirelessly ply their wares upon bargain-hunting Americanos...
...were no less than 17 other visitors, all more important than I. So I decided to try a desparate strategem. I entered the bedroom, closed the door behind me, and stalked into the inner chamber. "Fidel," I declared, in a voice that I hope sounded convincing, "my plane back to the states leaves in exactly one hour. (It actually was to leave the next morning.) May I have just five minutes of your time...
This renovation will also bring the squash team back into the College after a prolonged residence in the Harvard Law School, Hemenway Gymnasium being located next to the Law School dormitories. In the past, of the few spectators who could fit into the tiny Hemenway galleries nearly half were law students...