Word: fellows
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Gorbachev joined the Communist Party in 1952, while he was still in school. Lev Yudovich, a fellow student who knew Gorbachev slightly, remembers him as a "gray," or average, student who enjoyed slapping backs as much as hitting the books. "He didn't have a lot of original ideas," recalls Yudovich, who left the Soviet Union in 1977 and now teaches at the U.S. Army Russian Institute in West Germany. "But he made an effort to be everybody's buddy." Gorbachev soon was devoting as much time to party activities as to his studies. After graduating with a law degree...
...athletics. Becker would have been better letting the characters' actions speak for themselves. Instead he lets the various characters take stabs at his nihilist theme, rendering it ridiculous. Louden brings up the meaning of life in English class. His boss at work throws around his philosophical views. Even a fellow wrestler does some moralizing...
...This is the fellow that's responsible right here," Cleary said at the start of the post-game press conference. He was pointing to Grant Blair...
Jean-Louis Chavel is one of 30 Frenchmen being held in a small prison block by the occupying German army. Chavel, a lawyer before the war, and his fellow detainees know exactly why their captors provide them food and shelter: the involuntary guests are hostages, meant to discourage local Resistance violence against the Nazis. This deterrent, of course, does not work. Two Germans are killed, and the order comes down from the prison commander: one out of every ten prisoners is to be executed at sunrise. The men themselves must choose the victims. Lots are drawn, and Chavel finds himself...
...used for buildings, sewers and other construction projects. But with no strings attached, cities often simply tucked the money into their general budgets, spending it on such traditionally local functions as police and fire fighters and even golf courses. Says Martin Anderson, a former Reagan adviser and now a fellow at California's Hoover Institution: "Revenue sharing is a pure grant; you don't have to take any responsibilities. That's why local governments love...