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...harm is intended. Read the tepid nonsectarian prayer that led to the 1962 decision, and you wonder what all the breast beating was about: "Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country." Similarly, how could plaster-of-paris figures in Pawtucket, R.I., have alarmed anybody but the A.C.L.U., which brought the suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Whose Country Is It Anyway? | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...drips woke me up in the middle of the night," said Byton G. Morusonith '87 adding that he then noticed water all over the floor and dripping plaster in the bathroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flooding Plagues Canaday; Officials Blame Roof Design | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

...have a velour chair that is covered with wet plaster," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flooding Plagues Canaday; Officials Blame Roof Design | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

Students complained of bathroom flooding fallen plaster, and soaked carpeting in all Canaday entryways, in some cases, even reaching second-floor levels of the four and five-story buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flooding Plagues Canaday; Officials Blame Roof Design | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

...windows revealed no sign of life within...There were not the extremes of poverty or wealth here, only the petite bourgeoisie, hiding their valuables, their woolen socks even, in chinks, behind toothless shutters, rusted gutters, decrepit walls, the plaster flaking off in scales. Yet the windows were barred and the doors were solid...

Author: By Steven J. Parker, | Title: The Right Words | 1/18/1984 | See Source »

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