Word: passingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hustling Long Islander picked off an errant clearing pass from the Quaker's first team All-American defenseman Tony DelGiorno and tossed it into the empty net to erase Penn's lead for the last time. Just seconds later, Jamie Egasti put the Crimson ahead to stay with an unassisted effort...
Each day more than 60 women pass through the clinic. Almost half are under 22, all but a third are single, more than a third are Catholics who come despite their church's adamant opposition to abortion. They wait, go for blood and urine tests, and wait some more. For most, the visit takes four to five hours, the abortion itself only two to three minutes. It costs about...
Although Sacks has not yet submitted the proposal to the Corporation for formal approval, "the Corporation will in all likelihood pass it," O'Brien said last night...
...begins as a metaphoric uniting of the continent, comparable to Tamsen's second marriage to George Donner--"and I who started/a thousand miles before/feel in my flesh/the stretch of the land/as we give it birth"--it unfolds as a series of losses, of partings. "Now hesitant among the mountains/we pass across the invisible boundary/that divides self from self..." The last and most painful parting for Tamsen, is her husband's death. She therefore chooses to die in the mountains, with him and their broken wagon, under 20 feet of snow, rather than join her daughters who ultimately reach California...
...this was the American student's spring playland, where high school kids try to pass themselves off as collegians, college students try to act like high school kids, and the hotels, bars and discos keep both groups signing travelers' checks fast enough to cause writer's cramp. Where status is measured by the darkness of one's tan, the cut of one's clothes, and the flash of one's car. Where the wide-eyed seek true romance, the native seek experience, and the jaded seek an easy lay. Where everyone wears a swimsuit during the day but nobody spends...