Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students, not immune to the call of the dark, throughout the tunnels' history have found illicit adventure beneath the Houses. And for some students, exploring the tunnels has become a intramural sport. These so-called "tunnel runners" engage in late-night wanderings around the maze of tunnels...
...amiably sleepy town of about 2,000 souls (all of Forsyth County has only 38,000). Its biggest employer is a poultry-processing plant; its biggest social activity for adolescents is drag-racing outside the K mart. But for all its bucolic torpor, Cumming bears a dark stain on its history: an 18-year-old white woman was beaten and raped there one day in 1912 and, before she died, named three blacks as her attackers. One was lynched, the other two tried and hanged before a gloating crowd. There were so many threats against the remaining 1,000 blacks...
Regardless of their position in later life, Harvard graduates undoubtedly will remember their theses. If not for its bearing on their profession, at least for its disruption of their senior year; a time that did not have to be spent inside dark libraries and in front of cold word processors. That some Harvard graduates have gone on to fame and infamy probably has little to do with their senior thesis. But then again, it might please a bio concentrator, currently toiling in a lab, to think that one day, instead of insects, he or she could be writing about...
...Bush's lack of public support for her husband was inexcusable, a remarkable reaction considering the Vice President's long compliant service. Bush and his wife have tirelessly courted the Reagans, routinely dispatching approving notes after public appearances by the President or his wife. Reagan himself held no such dark feelings about Bush and told...
...year under way and the trials of 1988 looming, Bush sat in his White House office, legs stretched out in front of him, sipping a cup of Chinese tea. At 62, the Vice President is remarkably fit. His ruddy face is unlined, his hair only slightly gray. Dark blue eyes focused intently through his rimless aviator glasses. Bush was unruffled as he listened to questions / about his political nerve. "I know inside," he said, quietly tapping his chest, "I've got a lot of fiber here." He conceded he had been somewhat excessive in wooing conservatives but felt comfortable with...