Word: might
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weekend wasn't as bad as the Brown game might make it seem. After all, Harvard did reach the finals of a major tournament. And they did it by beating old nemesis UMass in the first round...
...Cranston's tight 1986 Senate race against former Republican Congressman Ed Zschau, Keating gave the California Democratic Party $85,000. Of the need for campaign money, Cranston says, "I have tried to change that situation but have been unsuccessful." Incumbents, however, don't try as hard as they might, since the high cost of elections and the ability to raise money from the likes of Keating give them a formidable edge over challengers...
Crack, a smokable form of cocaine, is a drug that might have been designed for use on the job. It is easy to conceal, since it burns with virtually no odor, and the gratification is swift: an intense, almost sexual euphoria that lasts only about five minutes and is not accompanied by such telltale side effects as alcohol's slurred speech and heroin's drowsiness...
...undiverted stream: not only frescoes and panel paintings and the innumerable sketches that preceded them, but also designs for palaces and villas and town houses (including his own house in Via Poma), for heraldic emblems, tapestries, urns, salvers, jewelry and every other class of luxury object a Renaissance patron might feel the itch to have. Indeed, Giulio's first job in Mantua was a tomb for the Duke's favorite dog, a long-legged bitch that had expired while giving birth to a litter of puppies...
...their right to a certain epitaph--words that sum up, even without entirely describing, the values they stood for, the passions they honored, the choices they made. What saddens me about the generation The Boston Globe, and my own eyes, have so vividly observed and described is that theirs might not have to be these few lines of W.H. Auden's famous "New Year Letter," written on the eve of the Second World...