Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...became involved with Twirly Top while he was working as a self-employed timber contractor, not long after his departure from Cambridge. It was there that he met Linda Sedell, now his fiancee, at the drive-in window...
...Corcoran adds that the networking at Radcliffe functions is not self-serving...
...better in reaching the variety of people interested in the school by presenting a more varied and rich public facade. Aggressive charisma is not the only kind of charisma, and Harvard's reputation might fare far better if it were in the hands of those with less evident self-satisfaction...
...Wilford can do things Linden cannot. Wilford's arm is stronger, and he can throw deep and to the sidelines with authority. He threw one pass last year that almost knocked the receiver down, and the only reason the wideout caught it was self-defense. Wilford's also big enough to stay tall in the pocket when things break down...
...additions to the acts of faith that lessen a Catholic?s time spent in purgatory ?- the heavenly holding pen outside the pearly gates. The pope announced the church will now give "partial" indulgences to parishioners who quit smoking, even for a day. (A full indulgence is achieved when the self-restraint is accompanied by confession and communion.) The money that would have been spent on the cigarettes should be donated to the needy, the manual intones. But besides enlarging charity coffers, what sort of spiritual good is done by a parishioner who stops smoking? Catholic officials call smoking, like drinking...