Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Originally, believe it or not, reading period was (gasp!) a period for reading--for catching up on texts not read during the term or for reading new books which would provide fresh insights on materials presented within the scope of a given course. It was a time to reexamine some of the ideas discussed early in the semester and to prepare for exams...
...when the final siren sounded, the scoreboard read Harvard 5, Boston College 4. And the Crimson's seven-year absence from the championship game had ended in front of 14,448 Boston Garden spectators...
...hard to know whether George Bush or his foreign policy advisors will take the time to read Bundy's book--and Bundy takes care not to offer them any easy answers. Indeed, Danger and Survival's last chapter is entitled, "Hope," and it ends with Bundy's point that "Our survival in the first 50 years of danger offers encouragement to renewed pursuit of truth, resolute practice of courage, and persistance in lively hope...
...Candidate Bush's no-new-taxes vow means he will not be able to keep promises to propose spending for new programs in education, child care and the war on drugs unless he breaks other promises to protect the defense budget and farm subsidies. Asked last week if his read-my-lips pledge would expire after one year, Bush replied meekly, "I'd like it to be a four-year pledge." But even he acknowledged that the kind of flap that followed the savings and loan mess may be repeated when he tells a joint session of Congress...
Worried that the man might know something I didn't, I hurried home to read what he had given me. When I finally got through the page-and-a-half proclamation, my anxiety turned to disbelief. This man's Nazis were not the anti-everybody Aryan supremacists from mid-century Germany. His Nazis turned out to be anti-abortion activists...