Word: picnics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From Opening Exercises, the first-year classheads en masse to the Radcliffe Quad for agood old-fashioned picnic--Harvard Dining Servicesal fresco, basically. Students are supposedto sit with their dormmates, but during the longmarch to the Quad, they tend to get separatedsomewhere between Johnston gate and the SheratonCommander Hotel. These kinds of things have a wayof happening on the way to the Quad...
...addition to his speech, which may focus on "the ABC's of learning," Aaron will attend the senior picnic in the Old Yard and possibly some masters' teas...
...Sunday, Ralph Reed rests -- at least he tries to. But on the night of April 30, his two-year-old, Christopher, lay awake for hours, badly sunburned from a picnic, leaving Reed little time for sleep in the modern, red brick house in Chesapeake, Virginia, that he and his wife Jo Anne recently purchased. Reed struggles for time with his family. "I get home as often as I can, even if it's only for a day," says the 33-year-old father of three. Still, the executive director of the formidable Christian Coalition has another mission, and at dawn...
...cause "shackle poison" (the new, handcuff-like shackles are made of lighter metals). Nor, in theory, will the men have to endure the overwork, beatings and disease that led to death rates as high as 45% among "classic" chain gangs. Still, working on a '90s-style gang is no picnic: inmates will be toiling through 12-hour workdays in the hot Alabama sun, serving sentences as long as 90 days. "If they try to escape," vows state corrections commissioner Ron Jones, "our officers are going to shoot them." No failure to communicate here...
...second passage he read, called "The Last Mill Picnic," described the last all-Black mill picnic in his town and the mixed emotions that accompanied...