Word: joined
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dance floor but forcing my heart into the same chaotic pulse. Twenty minutes and two beers later, it becomes apparent that the cadence has extended its pull to include my entire body, which wanders into the middle of a cluster of sweaty dancers and begins gyrating. My companions join me and before long we are propositioned by a flock of sweaty men. Apparently, one member of the herd is celebrating his 21st birthday, and his buddies think one of us lucky girls should surprise him with a kiss. They are MIT men, after all, so we should feel flattered...
Metzger, who is leaving the Somerville Hospitalafter 16 years, said he is excited to join theinstitution...
...This may or may not prove to be an effective answer...but it didn't seem to do any harm to join and support it," Ryan said...
...According to a letter to members of the American Council on Education (ACE) yesterday by council president Stanley O. Ikenberry, colleges and universities only recently became able to join...
...anachronistic. Since the civil rights movement, education and economic success have increasingly trumped light skin and the right pedigree as black status symbols. Graham shows how easily ambitious outsiders can now join the black upper class. He boasts that he belongs to the Boule, a group of "the most accomplished, affluent and influential black men" in the nation. If the Boule were really all that exclusive, a social climber like him would never have...