Word: porches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...formed in a virtually cloudless sky. Video cameras whir, and Polaroids spit out pictures. People whisper about the experience they have just shared. The announcer declares, "The Virgin Mary will now bless us." Arms extend portraits of Jesus, crucifixes and other % icons for blessing. Then Fowler steps onto the porch to relay Mary's words: "Pray and sacrifice, please...
...reared two lively boys, now 11 and 8. They also began swapping visits with their friends Bill and Hillary. The last time Bill Clinton stayed with Reich was in the spring of 1991, when President Bush was winning 80% approval ratings. Yet Clinton, chatting on the porch of Reich's big old Victorian home, nonetheless seemed determined to run against Bush. One reason, Clinton said, was to promote the ideas of investment in the future that were contained in The Work of Nations, which had just been published. A mutual friend, playing devil's advocate, raised several arguments why Clinton...
...stepfather gave him, his younger sister and brother, and his mother. Teachers reported their suspicions of abuse; relatives tried to intervene. But each time, police officers and social workers left the children in the home. On his 17th birthday, Roy shot and killed his stepfather on their front porch as he came home from work...
When David B. Wilkins '77 got tenure at the Law School last year, he thought it meant that he could move off of the fast track and spend more time "sitting on the porch eating bon-bons...
...Howe ('58) had an easier journey. He hoisted a WELCOME sign over his front porch, then walked across the street to the grounds where his grandfather ('11) and his father ('32) were schooled. "This is something," he marveled, noting that 2,000 people -- including more than a third of all the living graduates -- had come to the reunion. "Has to be a record...