Word: better
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority of students, however, seem to think pumpkin carvings, ice cream orgies, donuts, cider and pinball go better with booze. It is basically an unhealthy attitude to believe any social function has to include booze, but the alcohol is just about the only ingredient to ensure a regular House turnout. Holding a weekly cider hour might go over in Tenafly but in Cambridge, weekly happy hours lubricate even the most trivial house functions. Alcohol is no doubt a social crutch, but it is also one ingredient most people in a House will draw around...
RECENTLY, groups such as the Citywide Parents Advisory Committee have tried to stem violence in the schools by organizing boycotts, demanding that city leaders speak out, and lobbying for better protection for students both inside and outside school. Police have launched a Bureau of Investigative Service inquiry to determine the extent of adult involvement in the teenagers' walkouts, and dozens of community groups, such as the Urban League and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, have assembled informal conferences to discuss ways of cooling tempers within their communities...
...annexation of Tibet. The current Dalai Lama, then 15 years old, was still undergoing monastic training as successor to the previous Dalai Lama and had not yet assumed leadership of the country. After consulting with the state oracle, however, the Tibetans made him head of state to better defend the nation. On a visit to China soon after his inauguration, he was seized, virtually imprisoned, and coerced into signing a treaty giving control of Tibet to China. The treaty supposedly allowed Tibet to retain its cultural autonomy...
Though Ferrante relies mainly on her speed to frustrate the opposition, by improving her ball control and developing a more powerful shot, she has scored more frequently this year than last, when she still ranked as the team's third-highest scorer. In addition, her better ball-handling skills have made her a defensive, as well as offensive, threat...
...Before I got to Harvard I was just hacking around: I would just kick the ball and chase it. Here I've gotten a lot better, although I still do a lot of kicking and chasing anyway," she added...