Word: lamentable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other first-years lament perennial problems, such as long lines which they often cause their food to be cold and stale by the time they sit down to eat it, they...
Harvard continued its season-long shooting woes by hitting only 31.2 percent (24-77) of its shots. Once again, though, the team did not lament its shot selection...
...Cabot Science Library. Once a hotbed of unauthorized activity, the white desks are mostly scrubbed clean, leaving grafitti seekers to squint for any semblance of scribble. Curiously, most of what has survived the soap and water is scrawled in Cabot's top floor cubicles. The grafitti urges those who lament of homework, Harvard and heartbreak to "get some therapy." Compassion is low for those who complain, and for the frustrated library frequenters who ask "Where can I go to get head?" the cryptic yet conscise response, "a garbage disposal prickbrain...
...evil empire was the enemy. That was the central tenet of American cold warriors. Liberals deplored such talk as crude Manichaeism. Now, after 20 years of deriding anticommunists for being blinded by the Soviet threat, they wistfully recall how the Soviet threat brilliantly illuminated the foreign policy landscape -- and lament how obscure it all is with the lodestar gone. Ah, the Golden Age when everything was easy and we all joined hands in the cold war battles of Vietnam and Nicaragua and the Euromissiles...
...against-20 gunfight (this is his third time doing it, and he just keeps getting better). Indeed, there were moments, when four muscular men with determined faces were pictured galloping across the countryside, squinting and gritting ther teeth with determination, when I just wanted to stand up and lament, "Where oh where, at a time like this, is the Bon Jovi musical accompaniment?" J.B.J. did such a good job with the Tex-mex sound, I'm sure he could pull off an inspired 17th century France ballad...