Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sadly, there is no way out of this T-thing. I am a History and Literature concentrator. That means the T-thing is mandatory...
...first day of August and I have not done any work on my thesis (hereafter referred to as the T-thing, for the word is too unbearable to say). In fact, I do not have a T-thing. Or an advisor. Or even a clue...
...does my friend have a stack of books 10-feet high in his office? Yes, these books are for his T-thing. And he's actually read some of them. In fact, we couldn't go out one Saturday night until he had finished another chapter on the ratification of the Panama Canal Treaty. And he spent Friday afternoon--Friday--in a professor's office, discussing the merits of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
Still, I look at his books and say to myself, I should really have a T-thing. And I go to the refrigerator to get a Budweiser and contemplate whether a debate over the quality of foreign versus American beer would be an acceptable topic...
...President since 1952, Jaruzelski called on the contingent of opposition Solidarity Deputies to share responsibility by joining the Communist Party in a coalition government. But first he must get his own allies in line. Without a rival candidate, Jaruzelski required only a simple majority to be elected, a sure thing if all 299 Deputies belonging to the Communist coalition threw their weight behind him. The final count showed that eleven Communist alliance Deputies had broken ranks and that the general owed his election to maneuvering by a handful of Solidarity deputies...