Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this cynicism and lassitude still leaves Greene stranded, it does serve to throw a lot of weighty-sounding words into the air: piety, belief, hope, despair, loneliness, love...By sheer dint of having bandied these concepts about for so many years, Greene has gained a reputation for possessing a dose of profundity. Yet Greene's is a worldly wisdom that is never fully-earned. It is a posture of knowing pessimism that we are expected to take as an a priori supposition, and which Greene keeps us from questioning too deeply with his fleeting, almost cinematic prose; he gives...
...This regatta was important because there are a lot of good teams in the area," Horn said. "We're really looking to the New Englands at Yale in May. Yale and Tufts are tough," he added...
Those men were not martyrs. Alan Freed "co-wrote" a lot of Chuck Berry's first hits, in other words he got a cut of the artist's royalties for playing the record. Worse still, he was ultimately indicted and convicted for receiving payola, gifts from the record companies for playing their tunes...
...afraid these teams would be considerably stronger, but they are definitely beatable, and we had a lot to gain from playing them," Felske said...
...trip was a real boost to our confidence, and that means a lot in tennis. Everyone's really psyched for spring," Felske added. "We're a young team, Martha Roberts and Pierpont have a lot of potential, there are some good people coming in next year--we'll just get stronger and stronger," he added...