Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preferred house. As a result, Lowell House would be more crowded, but not too crowded, since a slightly emptier Mather House would then seem very attractive. Everyone would get the chance to maximize their utility be choosing the best tradeoff between the house they desire and conditions of crowding. Gone would be freshmen's complaints about being stuck at Radcliffe--everyone there would be there by choice. Gone would be complaints by students that their houses are too crowded--anyone could choose a less crowded house instead. The cost of the instant scoreboard and the twelve-button consoles...
...Soon after, the gates opened and the crowd began to seep in. The ticket-takers had agreed to work but clearly had conspired a slowdown--they were reading the small print on each ticket before tearing the stub. Some waiting ticketholders tried to appeal to Pressman but he had gone around to interview the short, charismatic city councilman, Father Louis Gigante. Father Gigante contended that if the city had not wasted so much money rebuilding the stadium, it might have stopped several schools and hospitals from closing down...
...introduced. Everybody cheered. Then Yogi Berra and everybody laughed and yelled. Then Mickey Mantle and the Stadium stood and made that noise thousands of people make when they greet a hero. Finally, Joe DiMaggio's name came over the expensive new sound system, paid for by money that had gone through George Steinbrenner's fingers and Pat Cunningham's. The small enclosed city stood as a unit for the great DiMaggio. Governor Carey, Cunningham, all of them stood...
...property crime in Massachusetts before and during the Revolutionary War, by 1784 that figure had more than doubled and by 1790 more than tripled. Of course the population was increasing as well, and so the rate at which crimes were being committed may not (no one knows) have gone up as sharply. But indisputably there was more crime and there were more criminals. The effectiveness of communal control by force of public opinion was fading...
Along with the police, the penitentiary was invented. As community control weakened, institutional control increased. But imprisonment was not simply or even primarily an expedient; it was seen as a reform. Gone would be the humiliation of the stocks and pillory, the pain of the whipping post, the agonies of the gallows. In their place would be an institution devoted not simply to confining but also to rehabilitating the offender. In the penitentiary-literally, a place where one repents-the native innocence of man could be restored by the proper combination of solitary reflection and spiritual guidance. The high hopes...