Word: surely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taber decided that even to work on such an Essay was begging for trouble. Sure enough, while he was reporting, he tried to interview a fortuneteller and she stood him up. When he invested a penny in a drugstore scale, he got back a card on which was printed his weight and the warning: "Watch your step...
Empty Amnesty. To nail down what already seems a sure thing, Premier George Papadopoulos last week made a calculated bid for popular approval by announcing that some 50 political prisoners will be released six days before the referendum. Among them are two ex-Premiers: liberal George Papandreou and conservative Panayotis Kanellopoulos. The gesture seems conciliatory, but in fact is largely empty. Even if the freed opposition leaders want to fight the constitution, their access to the voters is restricted by press censorship under martial law. Nor is the government radio likely to find any time for them. The amnesty does...
...students want to be sure they aren't doing anything against their conscience they should not eat the grapes," Hurlburt suggested...
...poorest family in New Jerusalem is headed by Silas Miller (a pseudonym). Miller is never too sure how many people live in his house, or even how many children he has. It doesn't matter; it's obviously too many. Usually there are about 23 people--half of them Miller's children, the rest an assortment of relatives, neighbors, and "little fellers we just couldn't turn away"--living in the one-room house...
...banshee is a female Celtic spirit "a kind of half-witch," Mrs. Dunn explained to one student. The boy, a sophomore who was clearly a bit astounded by his first Sunday in a Harvard House, sighed and remarked, "It sure feels good to get rid of them...