Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near in their dark suits standing around telling stories - solemnly at first - about their days and journeys with Hubert, beginning to chuckle and then to laugh out loud, and then reaching for an other bourbon to ease the long, low ache that comes from knowing a great man is gone. Had Hubert, like Tom Sawyer, been able to sneak under the back pews at his own services and witness the proceedings (and, who knows, he might have - he sort of believed in those things), he would have swelled in the wonderment of tribute. But then he would have tip toed...
What's the bottom line? I had been giving some thought to going to college the following year. Some of my friends had gone for a while and they said it was a lot of fun, that you did not have to turn in homework on time or even attend study halls...
What really sold me though was the halftime film they showed about the school. The television said that Henry Kissinger had gone there and then they showed this Harvard Yard just before a graduation, with luscious green grass and hot sun filtering through the trees. I knew it was the only place...
...timer put out a sign for two laps remaining for a guy I'd lapped, then put out the sign for one after I'd gone by him," Sheehan said. "It wasn't until half a lap was left that they fired the gun, and I realized what had happened...
...enjoyed the most successful first year of any hotel in the chain. Near by is a 42-story Marriott, which has 1,000 rooms and is adding 414 more. It will be topped by a new 50-story, 1,200-room Sheraton. Four major new office buildings have gone up in the revivified district. Only one corporation in Fortune's 500, the Lykes shipping and steel concern, has headquarters in New Orleans (v. ten in Houston, four in Atlanta) but this, too, may change if this exuberant, graceful city can reassert its unique identity...