Word: set
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ready, Set...
...shell-shocked. "I'm amazed that students at Harvard College would use tactics like that," commented John U. Munro, dean of the college. The Time magazine headline the next week read: "Aberrations at Harvard." It had taken a while, but the '60s had reached insular Cambridge and the precedent set...
...runners went into the race expecting a quick start, Amble said, but the pack stayed fairly close together for the first mile and a half, with no one wanting to set a fast pace...
...night. One has been gone for four months, off work with a stroke. The altar pleases him; the thought that demonstrators may march on the Common scares him. Graying on the sides like middle-aged cops are supposed to, he worries about the day ahead. "One little thing can set people off," he explains. "You gotta nip it just before it gets out of hand." Another cop, just as Irish as the first, lists the kinds of "maggots" the observer will see. "There will be lots of wallet lifters, and some of the guys who just grab ladies' necklaces...
Earlier today, I set foot on the soil of the United States of America. In the name of Christ I begin a pastoral journey that will take me to several of your cities. At the beginning of this year, I had the occasion to greet this continent and its people from a place where Christopher Columbus landed; today I stand at this gateway to the United States, and again I greet all of America. For its people, wherever they are, have a special place in the love of the Pope...