Word: handfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took her hand, kissed her head, bent close to murmur some words, and placed on her lap a small box inscribed with the words Totus Tuus (Totally Yours) and the papal coat of arms. When she opened the box, she found a rosary of white beads with a gold cross. Said De Martino: "If you had given me the whole world, it wouldn't have meant so much." A Boston cop who had been standing beside the chair began to weep. "I've got to get back to church," he said, and he walked away...
...KENNEDY FORCES, on the other hand, are acting like little children. At first, hard at work gathering enough support to even mount a race, they downplayed their chances. But when daddy started to indicate that he's ready to play, they couldn't control their own excitement...
...Hampshire authorities defended the actions of the state troopers and national guard. Police were placed in "difficult, trying, and sometimes even dangerous situations," N.H. Gov. Hugh Gallen said Monday. Other state officials, including Attorney General Thomas Rath, were on hand to watch the police disperse crowds...
...other hand was a more diffuse group of people who felt Harvard Square was the only proper site for the library complex--and that opponents harbored elitist feelings. Councilor Sullivan says opponents "didn't want the library. Period." Crane agrees, saying that even though Pei revised his plans twice to accommodate residents' fears--and appeared at public meetings on the proposal--"a very small handful of well-organized people put the harpoon into the library...
...Columbia Point location is more accessible than the Square and better for the library. Steiner says the library would have been a "touristic appendage" to Harvard, whereas at UMass 'it is a center of attention and attraction which stands in its own right." Councilor Sullivan, on the other hand, still believes a small group of "neighbors kicked the hell out of" the proposal and that "the citizens of Cambridge screwed themselves." Jonathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics, hopes the library will be successful, adding that "any sense of disappointment of not having the whole cluster is well behind...