Word: sights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faces, soon-to-be explored relationships and an invaluable education-in and outside class, of course-await, I can't help but long for the summer to go on just a little bit longer. To have a simple but impossible extension of time to keep the smiles in sight, the conflicts tangible and the bonds within reach would be great. Yet from our closed community to bustling college cities we must go. The time to move on is here...
...Annenberg Hall, which, of course, easily took the 1996 Best Renovation award, things are looking bleak. There's no fro-yo in sight, upperclass students are as unwelcome as ever, and the line for dinner during orientation week regularly stretched to record length, past the fountain and into the plaza in front of the Science Center...
...February 1981, Diana went to Australia to visit her mother," says Janson, who is based in Melbourne. "She was never out of Mummy's sight. She didn't have a chance to see anything of the world before she got married." Before she left for Australia, Prince Charles had proposed. "I wanted to give her a chance to think about it," he said. "To think if it was all going to be too awful...
...while traveling them, did not make her Christian conversion until age 17. She was moved to a new faith by the terrible religious carnage that attended the Indian partition in 1947 and by observing Mother Teresa in Calcutta, years later, attending to its refugees. "It was inspiration at first sight," says Nirmala, who became one of the order's first volunteers...
...spring of 1985, and President Reagan had just given Mother Teresa the Medal of Freedom in a Rose Garden ceremony. As she left, she walked down the corridor between the Oval Office and the West Wing drive, and there she was, turning my way. What a sight: a saint in a sari coming down the White House hall. As she came nearer, I could not help it: I bowed. "Mother," I said, "I just want to touch your hand." She looked up at me--it may have been one of God's subtle jokes that his exalted child spent...