Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brought in a six-pack of beer and drank one the minute after he handed in his thesis," Gerard F. Denault, tutorial secretary for the History Department said. "Our wierdest story, however, is about someone who put their thesis into a computer and lost two chapters on magnetic tape. It's really too bad--he's applying for a waiver of our penalty of subtracting two points per hour," he added...
...used to follow the progress of the top AAU swimmers in the country, but after a time I found my own times outdistanced by the men and then finally in the middle of the pack for the women. I decided then it was time to quit paying such close attention to that and worry more about my own swimmers," he said recently...
...cross-country in the fall, And in the winter, indoor track No lazy girl this SoHo lass--A leader of the pack...
...voters to win the November election. Ironically, the moderate Baker had also insisted that he could attract the necessary coalition of voters to win. But his quiet style lit no fires, and when he finished a distant fourth in Massachusetts, with only 5% of the tally, he decided to pack it in. Said he: "It's not in the cards...
...Portland, Me., and about one-third more than Chicago. Florida too was taking its licks. In early March, temperatures plummeted below freezing, putting a squeeze on the citrus crop, and tornadoes cut across the southeast part of the state. Up North folks were trying to decide whether to pack away mufflers and mittens after spring-in-December readings of 16° C (60° F). The most startling weather occurred in California, where downpours of almost biblical proportions caused floods, mud slides and untold havoc...