Word: clear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tourists walked along the sidewalk, clicking their cameras and trying to stay clear of the mass of dancing bodies and umbrellas swinging in the street. The number ended in a powerful discord of shrill brass notes, and the crowd let out a great "Whoop!" We continued marching to the beat of the snare drum...
...Thee," in dirge tempo. The crowd was silent as the mourners in black followed the casket. One heavy old woman with fleecy white hair was weeping into a handkerchief and singing out the words of the hymn in between sobs. Her rich voice wailed above the brass with a clear, poignant tone...
Before Saturday's game against Yale, Crimson coach Bruce Munro said, "Whoever goes after it will win." It was quite clear that Yale was the team which went after it. As has been the case all year, Harvard was terribly inconsistent. One period the Crimson hustles with great determination, and then the next quarter, the team is about as aggressive as Bambi during menopause, if deer are indeed subject to such slowdowns. That was the pattern in almost every game. Harvard was routing Penn before the Quakers rallied for several late goals and then crushed the Crimson...
...with. The pose of spokesman for the militant young does not come naturally to him, and the preform statements of serious revolutionary purpose at the book's beginning and end (and a couple points in between) are without question Kunen's most strained and unconvincing writing. It is not clear whether deference to his publisher or a dim consciousness of how important a book this well-written might be tempts Kunen to include lines like "What we do have is hopes and fears," or "Since the First Republic of the United States is one hundred ninety-two years...
...passing sentence on Offner in East Cambridge District Court on Friday, Viola clearly indicated that it was the political context of Offner's act, rather than the act itself, which produced the extraordinarily harsh penalty. After the Commonwealth had recommended a sentence of six months for the assault and battery conviction, Viola gratuitously doubled the sentence for no apparent reason other than his own outrage at the act and, apparently, at the seizure of University Hall itself. Had Offner shoved a fellow student in the way that he is alleged to have shoved Watson, Viola would never have entertained...