Word: block
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past year alone, the Harvard administration's insensitivity to the critical shortage of housing in Cambridge has become all too apparent. One block away from Leverett House, for instance, stands a church-owned parking lot which the University plans to lease to build student dormitories. Adams House Co-Master Jana Kiely proposed that Harvard lease the land, satisfy its own housing needs, and then set aside a portion for homeless families and a center for socially-concerned students...
Ronis: (Laughing, in the voice of aHollywood starlet) Yes! Trust in God, which somepeople deal with. (end block quotation...
Since assuming the top position in the College's patriarchy, however, Jewett has been up to a lot more than simply attending home sporting games. Predictably, the new dean on the block initially tried to avoid any potentially divisive issues...
...child, was born in the urban equivalent of a log cabin, the room behind his father's grocery store. Cuomo has turned his early life into a sepia-tinted parable of a polyglot neighborhood of hard work and love. He can spin out stories about everyone on the old block: Lanzone, the baker; Kaye, the Jewish tailor; Kelly, the Irish scrap dealer...
...that anyone actually failed to see him, or to guess what he was carrying in a manila envelope decorated with the White House seal. With Saunders in plain view, Majority Leader Robert Dole archly informed fellow Senators that Ronald Reagan had vetoed an attempt by Congress to block a sale of arms to Saudi Arabia, and * "somewhere there is a messenger who has that information." But the moment Saunders' presence was officially acknowledged, the veto would become the pending business of the Senate, forcing some sort of action. So for 2 1/2 hours, Saunders first stood and then...