Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their tradition of athletic excellence continued to grow after Reynolds and Morrissey entered Harvard in 1984 and 1985, respectively. Once again, they focused their talents into a common sport--squash--and once again they excelled...
...Waiting Room: Yes. This littleused resource has fantastic potential for the truly desperate. Think about it. You'll have plenty of people to choose from, something in common with everyone else--HEY! MY NOSE IS RUNNING TOO!--and literally hours and hours to build a relationship. Just avoid those patients with symptoms of sexually transmitted diseases...
...vast section of mankind as effectively as Salman Rushdie. In Bombay seven prominent writers and intellectuals, all non-Muslims, declared in a joint statement, "The pain of scurrilous intrusion into the regions of the sacred is not felt by the so-called fundamentalists only, but is the common experience of the whole, besieged ((Muslim)) minority. While there can be rational opposition to their faith, there should be no outraging of it by obscenity and slander...
Mothers at Mandela House have more than addiction in common. They're mostly poor and black. All have other children in family and foster homes. Beatings by boyfriends and husbands were regular. What brought their world crashing down was an out-of-control lust for the intense feelings of power and well- being that flow from a hit of crack. "Crack has taken away these women's pride," says Thomas. "By the time they find their way here, they'll beg, steal and trade their bodies to the dope man for more." The mothers uneasily deny that their babies were...
...nightmare seems like something out of the Middle Ages: an army of voracious rats emerges from Boston's sewer system, inspiring fear and loathing around the city. The rodents stream past Faneuil Hall, invading the festive food booths of Quincy Market. Soon the rats spread across Boston Common to the Massachusetts statehouse and move into the town houses in tony Back Bay. As panic rises, the assault becomes the biggest threat to the Boston area since Paul Revere warned that the British were coming...