Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Five thousand people attended Harvard's April 4 rally. A story in The Crimson followed in the next day, and as soon as Jesse Jackson left the thousands evaporated into mere hundred...
...miss Argentine, the Sahara, all the parts of the world I don't know, the whole earth--and that's much milder, more resigned and hopeless. It's a 'tender suffering' that resembles happiness. It's like missing a life I might have had when I was 'a thousand Socrates'. But now I'm only one. Or maybe two or three...
Before the Eastern Sprints two weeks hence, the Crimson's work will have to involve discovering why it faded in the second thousand meters of Saturday's contest...
...broad cultural frame, Vietnam became the quintessential proving ground of these myths. America's will, its ability to meet its destiny as the world's savior Vietnam was five thousand miles away from San Francisco, but we had to be as willing and able to fight Evil (a.k.a. "Communism") in that remote land as we were in Europe. Vietnam was also the place where the efficacy of America's technological omnipotence would be conclusively demonstrated to the world. The thirty years of American involvement in Vietnam proved both those concepts false, Baritz includes, though for many they endure...
...students' learning and to their tolerance for other points of view, their sense of responsibility, their social and emotional maturity. Apart from these benefits, the years spent living in a university afford to many people an enjoyable experience they would not willingly give up even to save a few thousand dollars a year in room and board. For all these reasons, the residential campus promises to remain a fixture despite its costs...