Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frank Rich's review of Frederick Wiseman's PBS film Canal Zone [Oct. 10] does a great injustice to Canal Zone residents. Specifically, I refer to such statements as "Zonians, for all their manic patriotic ardor, are a rootless and unhappy lot; their crime rate and child-abuse rates are well above the mainland rates...
...before she and Linn decided to spend $35 for a toy truck coveted by their son Craig. "If you've ever seen a little boy's eyes light up like they did when he saw it in the store window," says Karen, "you'd suffer a lot yourself before denying it to him. The rest of Christmas is going to have to be love and kisses, but that's easy...
...seemed most unlikely that American farmers, traditionally an independent and antiunion lot, would be eager to do that. Most leaders of established farm organizations oppose the call for a strike, which first came from a group of Colorado ranchers and then was spread through the farm states...
...schools to play football and the pressure was tremendous. Coaches call to express seemingly sincere opinions attesting to their appreciation of your astounding football prowess. They make you feel important--as if you were really needed. They take you out to the best restaurants in town and spend a lot of money and time on you to give you the impression you will be treated similarly once you enroll...
...Traditionally, Christmas vacation has been very important for a lot of law students. First-year people use it to figure out what their courses are all about," Richard W. Shepro '75, a second-year student, said yesterday...