Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite residents' concern about how Harvard has treated them up till now, many seemed optimistic about working with the University in the future...
There are some other basic reasons why I'm opposed to executing him. First, it doesn't make any difference. The bottom line is that my little kid's not coming back. I'll have to deal with this till the day I die. Killing McVeigh will not change that. The second reason is that dead men don't talk. If he's in prison long enough, McVeigh may tell us what his thought processes were, why he did what he did, and who else was involved. I want to hear that information, even if comes out in the form...
...only blemish came against Princeton on the last day of January. The Tigers, shaved and tapered, threw all they had at the Crimson for the dual meet. Harvard, waiting till the Easterns and national tournament to peak, battled well despite the odds and fell...
...felt in the news, in the number of uniforms on campus and by the Navy men marching to class at ungodly early hours singing "Wait Till the Sun Shines Nellie" in cadence. I once accused Jack Lemmon '47, who was in a Navy program, of disturbing my slumbers, but he has denied this. And although uncertainties most of us would face at 18-plus were with us all the time, there were still pleasures to be explored. There were wonderful stage productions at the Brattle Theatre, of which Engene O'Neill's "the Hairy Ape" still rings vivid in memory...
...toward depression, then poke it in the ribs. The broody lyrics of Nick Lowe's Battlefield ("All around there is desolation/ And scenes of devastation/ Of a love being torn apart") get swallowed and spat out by the jouncy banjo, the skiffle beat and the Jordanaires-style backing vocals, till the whole thing sounds like a minstrel show staged by Grand Ole Opry; everyone has a high time playing at misery...