Word: borrowings
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...example, the University does not need to keep the circulation desks open 24 hours. While the ability to borrow books at any hour of the day or night would certainly be convenient, the late hours for the students who work the circulation desks might be a bit too much...
...before the Brown football game, three students from the Providence, R.I. university convinced Coppersmith that they were ABC reporters and needed to borrow the drum for pictures...
Muse Sick N Hour Mess Age isn't Public Enemy's best CD, but it is lyrically provocative and musically rich. The songs are relentless, pummeling, chaotic -- something like a house party crossed with a race riot. As lead rapper Chuck D told Time: "We wanted to borrow from soul, blues, gospel and rock 'n' roll elements and blend them into something we can call our own. And make it faster...
...family and their friends, seemed perfect. He could become a hero by co-opting it for truth and light. The producers persuaded him to accept answers in advance by telling him how much good he was doing the cause of education with his presence. And the schmuck (to borrow a word from Herbie Stempel's lexicon) believed them...
...leave Boston for New % York City, the world's jazz oasis. But when he arrived, it was more like a desert. He couldn't afford the $500 to buy his own horn. "There weren't too many gigs coming my way," he remembers. To practice, he had to borrow an old instrument a friend was using to hold flowers. At night he slept in the backseat...