Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...indeed a glorious week, complete with concerts, ice cream socials, and numerous four-question conversations. Some of my favorites include: Where are you from? What dorm do you live in? What are you thinking of concentrating in? Oh, and do you know person X from the same town as you? (Questions may vary.) But few (if any) of the people we meet during this week become our acquaintances and even fewer become our friends...
...blanking of Westford Academy, I heard the radio system broadcasting the play-by-play from Game Three of the Sox-Tribe series. Returning home, I found the Sox hopelessly behind, 8-2. Yet as Mo stepped up to the plate, the fans gave him a standing ovation for the glorious season that he and the Red Sox had enjoyed...
...players on the Harvard dating scene draw their own conclusions from this last fact. But it's a safe bet that Yankee fans, rejuvenated by another glorious October, will be doing some catching up at the end of the month. Daniel Habib '00, a Crimson editor, is a literature concentrator in Adams House...
Consumers pay less for a frilly, carpet-covered toilet seat at a cavernous Wal-Mart or K-mart than they would pay for that same glorious throne at a local mom-and-pop store. And, thus, the consumer is better off. Who am I to stand in the way? By criticizing this trend, I am not trying to advance a socialist agenda, I am merely lamenting the disappearance of small-town America, the America suggested to me by Norman Rockwell paintings...
...will take some time for the long-ball Luddites to accept that these are the good old days--the days of damn Yankees, of pitching phenoms like El Duque and Kerry Wood, of a glorious Griffey, surely of the mad bombers McGwire and Sosa. We may have to wait 20 years--when, say, Matt McGwire, now 11 and a weekend bat boy for his father's team, threatens to hit 100 homers in a season--for reality to set in. Then the geezers will sigh and say, "Ahhhh, remember the glory...