Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what they want," he says. The other workers seem disconcerted by this statement. "Well, it's true at some of these other Houses, students make you feel like...well, like you're working for them," Pat says. But before anyone else can respond to John's criticism, the others break out in praise for Harvard and Lowell House. Then John says, "They got the system in this House worked out real nice. I can stay in the back when the kids come, and I don't have to get them anything, except when something runs out or breaks down...
Rarely, if ever, do Harvard students anger him, even when they do things like let a pet cobra loose in the House--as one Adams resident did a few years ago when Richardson was on duty--or break a sprinkler system pipe doing chin-ups on it, the work of another Adams House student earlier this spring...
...blame them when they break loose a little bit?" he asks, listening to a distant party. "As long as no one's flying out the window I don't break...
...award to Giamatti prompted University administrators to break with tradition, planning to allow the 40-year-old Renaissance scholar to march at the head of the Commencement parade next...
...normalize relations between the United States and Vietnam. During their trial, both prosecution and defense witnesses disagreed whether the passing of the documents in question constituted a breach of national security; many witnesses admitted that the papers contained little in the way of sensitive material. While the two did break the law in stealing the documents, the government has trumped up the severity of the charges against them...