Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grandparents should not have to give to Harvard because it is Harvard. Everything The Name is known for is what kept them out--the old-time prestige, the Puritanical roots, the grooming ground for the white Protestant male power elite...
...baseball caps. The dance floor is made of plywood panels, and the ceiling is the blue Arizona sky. DANCE AT YOUR OWN RISK reads the sign posted near a huge cactus. Couples dance in the desert, romance hovering like heat haze; some dress in matching colors. Stuck in the ground around them are plastic hyacinths, windmills, ducks. "I can't help it if I'm still in love with you," sings a man to himself, staring off at the mountains...
Donovan was the Crimson's most versatile player this year, chipping in as a second-line midfielder as well as a long-stick middie, and handling the face-off duties to boot. Donovan led Harvard in ground balls with...
...courtyard of Amenhotep III were leaning ominously. They are now propped up with wooden scaffolding, while preservation experts decide what to do next. The temple's limestone walls have cracked, and the Battle of Kadesh carved on its massive pylons has faded. A report suggesting ways to stabilize the ground underneath them from leaning farther is expected soon...
...century B.C. temple, where Alexander the Great was supposedly crowned King of Egypt, have developed cracks and are in danger of falling. Egyptian officials hope to save the monument by moving it piece by piece from its present site on shifting sand in the Western Desert to firmer ground. The big question is where...