Word: pleasant
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...this." As for the motivation behind alumni interest in seeing who gets in from the area, and their desire to play a role in who does, Simpson sees the drive as a blend of civic and old school pride as well as the desire to repay the school for pleasant memories and opportunities...
Sometimes it seems a little like this Berryman poem I like, about the screen images of rats in childhood prison movies--where "the rats have grown up, mostly, and this is for real"--but usually it all seems civilized and ceremonious and pleasant. One of the articles that helped turn me fully against the war, I realized this year, was about how the Vietnamese were our time's Meursaults: like the people Camus tried to described, they had a faceless, irrational and overpowering enemy, and though they were not classical heroes they attained nobility by fighting oppression. Every day, hundreds...
...When I first came to Harvard as a junior transfer soccer wasn't all that pleasant for me. I had some problems with the coach [Bruce Monroe] that I'd rather not go into and I was also sharing duties with the previous year's goalie Bill Meyers. It was sort of a rough period...
...perimeter, he forced people to meet whenever they go outside. Indeed, says Resident Mrs. Jill Nicholls: "A greeting is not just a wave as you drive past. It's a stop and a chat." As a result of all the careful planning, life in Shay Gap is pleasant, employee turnover is low, and Goldsworthy Mining is satisfied that the town is worth every cent of its $10 million construction cost...
Thousands can afford this expensive apartheid; thousands more can bear the costs of living in pleasant apartments in high-rise buildings in New York, Miami or Chicago. But millions of elderly Americans, the majority of them women and widowed, have to make do more modestly. Ella Larson, 73, a retired nurse in Santa Monica, Calif., finds apartment living increasingly expensive. She gets $107.80 a month from Social Security, which goes for food. An additional $147 from old-age assistance pays her rent and utilities, which leaves her almost nothing for clothes and entertainment. Mrs. Larson worries constantly that her rent...