Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thing, the city has been taking a lot of flack from Protestant groups and the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Union for offering to finance even part of the Pope's multi-million dollar visit. The groups insisted that the city not pay for the papal Mass on Boston Common. The City Council, however, granted $750,000 for the Pontiff's overnight stay...
Later, after a two-week tour across the island with total freedom to see whatever I wished as long as I stayed in the same city as the tour, I would spend a lot of time laughing at my initial impression and its outrageous incongruity with the rest of my experience. Except for a small group of soldiers guarding the national monuments in Havana, which the government fears may be targets for counter-revolutionaries, Cuban streets were generally unpatrolled, even by policemen. Even so, there was little rowdiness or theft and no sense at all of the menacing atmosphere that...
...understand there is a big gap. It is always a slow, upward ramp. We'll have a lot of work on technique," Barnaby cautions. But he is quick to insist that he's looking to win--soon. "I hate that phrase 'building years,'" Barnaby says, condemning two words heard often on the Harvard sports scene of late...
...Jack is back, though his legend and legacy never left. "Harvard has been struggling in a lot of sports," he says. "But we had an old saying about Cambridge: 'Atmosphere of excellence.' And while that shouldn't be taken too seriously, I'd like...
Jacobs added he expects a lot of people to come down with colds, especially if the weather is bad. "And any big crowd--no matter how peaceful--has its share of cuts, bruises and sprains," he said...