Word: basement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University Police will vacate its familiar confines in the basement of Grays Hall some time this fall, moving to a new spot headquarters at 29 Garden...
Millions of Americans can recall weekly church-basement Bible sessions, with their choruses of Jesus Loves Me, Christmas pageants acted by angels with dusty bathrobes, and piggy banks crammed with pennies for the poor...
There are other facets of the conventions the TV cameras ignore--the railroad press lounge in the Garden basement, for example, where employees of the railway lobby distribute free beer, sandwiches, and advice about the need for more government subsidies to the rail industry. But the biggest distortion of the TV broadcasts is their ability to add excitement where it doesn't exist, and paradoxically, to miss the spirit during the few moments of true emotion...
...WILL FLY in form Denver in a couple of weeks and the cab driver will ask you where you're going to school and overcharge you and the janitor in the basement of Matthews will look down a list of names and hand you a key. Your roommate may beat you to the single and your proctor may have very little of import to say but you'll have your very own piece of Harvard real estate and your own little corner of the Yard...
...South Africa seems a little far away for your tastes--if you can't identify with the hundreds of black miners who died under the whips of a company run by a man who mined diamonds and ten built the library in the basement of the Kennedy School--you might want to take a walk down the block. Any block in the surrounding area will do, because Harvard is sure to own the land and most of the buildings on it. And Harvard is buying more each day and the city's leaders are still wringing their hands in distress...