Word: hills
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...playing for Harvard is a step up from playing for Belmont Hill...
Young, a freshman, was captain of the Belmont Hill High School team last year and a member of Team Massachusetts in his final two years...
...they take their leave of Capitol Hill, they cast a fond eye at the past and discern troublesome aspects of the present.The three Senators seem to mourn the loss of the gentlemanly quality of the old days. They are disturbed by the all-importance of money in the political process and dismayed by the impatience of their younger colleagues. Each is proud, somewhat battered but unbowed. In their faces and in their careers is writ the recent history of the nation...
Goldwater never minced words. During the Watergate crisis in 1974, he journeyed to the White House to tell Richard Nixon that he had lost his support on Capitol Hill. In the 1980s, when many thought of him as a kind of political relic, he achieved perhaps his greatest effectiveness. Although he was never a Senate insider (he was far too blunt and unpredictable for that), as chairman of the Armed Services Committee he won what he considers his most important victory, the passage of the 1986 Defense Reorganization Act, which streamlines the byzantine military decision-making process...
Long, 68, the son of the legendary populist Senator Huey Long, was elected to the Senate in 1948, one day shy of his 30th birthday. But he was not shy about anything when he arrived on the Hill. Ignoring the tradition that new Senators should listen and learn from their elders, he made his first speech * in defense of the filibuster, and he rose to speak no fewer than 469 times in his freshman year. Throughout his career, he would use the filibuster time and again in efforts to block civil rights legislation...