Word: belonged
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Students are not permitted to claim they belong to an organization unless they are recognized by the administration--and there's the rub. To be recognized, a student club must have two faculty sponsors (at least one of which must be a tenured professor), at least 10 members, a constitution and financial reports. Only then will the Committee on College Life consider the petition. Until organized, a group is not allowed to hold meetings on campus, have speakers, or publish materials for the student population...
Rene E. Rojas '94 said he hopes disciplinary action will be taken. "I think it's disgusting and I don't think [the vandals] belong here," he said...
Ever since I've been here I've heard people telling me that no one really feels like they belong here at Harvard with "all of those incredibly brilliant people," so I shouldn't be surprised that I sometimes feel that way. All along I've thought that they were right. But really I guess I don't actually belong here academically; I'm just here to run a few miles, kick a few balls or shoot a few baskets. What was I thinking? I hope my parents don't here [sic] about this--all along they've been...
...more reason for Europeans to ponder the implications of Britain's sudden entry -- at long last -- into the European Monetary System's exchange control mechanism. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who had opposed the EMS from the beginning as an infringement on national sovereignty, was tacitly acknowledging her need to belong -- and her fear of losing influence over decisions in an E.C. in which the center of political gravity is shifting toward the newly united Germany. At the same time, however, Thatcher brought with her a philosophical challenge to the wider project, that of creating a common currency and central bank...
...Zeugma" is a literary device in which a single verb modifies two distinct objects that do not belong together--as, for example in the following passage from Alexander Pope's "The Rape of the Lock...