Word: summering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dukakis is the one who should be best able to prove his opponent is out of the mainstream. This summer, working as a research intern for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, I examined hundreds of House of Representatives votes on major issues and the corresponding administration's positions. I found that if Reagan and Bush were in the House of Representatives, they would be among its 10 or 20 most conservative members...
...Oral History of My Mother; His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft). Brodkey's family histories tend to stretch out as interminable catalogs of emotion, pain and bereavement alternating with epiphanic flashes of elation: "In my memories of this time of my life, it seems to be summer all the time, even when the ground is white: I suppose it seems like summer because I was never cold." Moments like this almost redeem the strenuous labors that Brodkey and his readers must suffer through to achieve them. Because of his fascination with autobiographical minutiae, his willingness to spin elaborate...
...THIS summer, the Kroks went on a world tour which lasted two months--and brought them behind the Iron Curtain for the first time. The singers say they especially enjoyed singing on the streets of Moscow...
BEING a Krok is "the most intense musical experience you can have at Harvard," O'Halloran says. "We practice two to three times a week during the school year, and we perform together over the summer. We're together all the time--we become a family...
...Everyone is just deathly afraid of that [Columbia] game. It carries over into the summer. It spoils your summer." --Harvard Coach Joe Restic, whose squad has opened its season against Columbia for 13 consecutive years...