Word: saws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beginning however, the Union promised to be the fulfillment of a furious crusade for democracy in the College. The turn of the century saw Harvard wrestling with a two-fold problem: high school graduates and scholarship students lived in the economical Yard, while the rich moved off to "Gold Coast" quarters on Massachusetts Avenue and Mount Auburn Street: moreover, find and "waiting" clubs were forming, with luxurious new clubhouses also erected on Mount Auburn Street. Harvard College, both physically and socially was splitting into two camps...
...have you been, Jean. It seems like years since I spoke to you. How long has it been since I saw you, Jean?" (Hm, A crummy introduction, as they had met only last week...
Even so, only four other countries saw fit to send representatives. Jordan's Hussein was there, and so was Syria's head of state, Noureddine Atassi. Iraq sent only a Deputy Premier because of its quarrel with Syria over the true interpretation of Baathist socialism, but Sudan sent its new ruler, Major General Jaafar Nimeiry. The oil-soaked Kuwaitis, Saudis and Libyans, who already donate $378 million a year to war-damaged Egypt and Jordan, stayed away, lest they be touched for even bigger donations. Sure enough, the leaders at the mini-summit made a blunt demand...
...little lady. Deviate by one single comma, and you find out who is in supreme authority." So how come he got into the movie in the first place? "A little fellow who may or may not have been a producer convinced me to do it," deadpanned Matthau. "I never saw him again. Maybe Elaine...
...young Durrell saw death too. The crisp horror of a tarantula killing a newly hatched bird is as vivid in his prose as it must have been to the watching boy. "The spider drew the quivering baby to him and sank his long, curved mandibles into its back. The baby gave two minute, almost inaudible squeaks as it writhed briefly in the hairy embrace of the spider. The poison took effect, and then the spider turned and marched off, the baby hanging limply from his jaws." Happily, Durrell refrains from following this description with a bloodless dissertation on the importance...