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Word: floras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aren't like that.' Those kids aren't the kind who will listen. They will just tease and look at you funny." A boy earnestly explains: "Sometimes you are too scared to tell your friends. You might be ashamed." "Ashamed?" a counselor asks. A girl called Flora (the names of students are fictitious) stares at the floor and says, "Sometimes they say they are just going on a trip. I was upset. They lied." The point of this support group, the real usefulness of a school's becoming involved, is made clear when the counselor asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Massachusetts: Divorced Kids | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

Most of the Crimson's overall strength lies in the distances and Ed Sheehan, Mark Meyer, and Peter Fitzsimmons should all give Husky Bob Flora, last year's second-place finisher in the two-mile, a run for his money...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Tracksters Out for Revenge at GBCs | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...discs. The band is tight, but the intricate mini-fugues and pompous fanfares that highlight the horns still sound gratuitous. The vocal sections are disappointing; Chick's voice lines are difficult, and Gayle Moran has the training but not the panache to sing them convincingly (where O where is Flora Purim?). Bassist Stanley Clarke cannot sing well--and on this date he sounds like he has both a head cold and a bad case of stage fright. The banal lyrics don't help matters...

Author: By Paul Davison, | Title: Lost In Eternity | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...family seat of the MacLeods is Dunvagun Castle, where the clan is presided over by none other than John MacLeod ever since Dame Flora MacLeod died last year. "Every now and then I'll wear a family plaid," says Harvard's member of the clan...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: The M(a)cLeod 'Brothers': Nos. 23 and 43 Are OK | 11/16/1978 | See Source »

Sheehan and Fitzsimmons tied for second at 29:22, behind Dartmouth's sophomore sensation Art Switchenko, who complete the exceptionally hilly course in 28:57, just ten seconds shy of the record which he set fleeing from all-Americans Bruce Bickford and the Flora twins in a meet with Northeastern last year...

Author: By Laura E. Schanberg, | Title: The Herd' Tramples Dartmouth, 23-32 | 10/21/1978 | See Source »

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