Word: tilling
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When nearly all the students have been matched, a process that runs till late July, the advisers erect a chart on a blackboard that lists all the rooms by size. When all the rooms have been filled, the advisers gear for another round of dealing as they try to fill their share of the Yard's rooms with a well-rounded group. Only at this last level can roommate groups be "handpicked by the senior adviser...
...couple of hours trying to convince you they have nothing better to do than welcome and address you. Don't be fooled; they do. Besides, if you heard Guy Vander Jagt or Mo Udall give a keynote speech this summer, you've probably listened to enough rhetoric to last till 1984. When, as the intelligentsia secretly know, the world will...
...control, the need for a stomping ground, consumes his character. He "swaggered through the bar and the mostly teen-age crowd moved out of his way. He smiled and thought of it as the parting of the Red Sea." Almost nobody loved Tommy Ryan, but most people feared him, till they started to hate him and then it was all over...
...siege of Harfleur, Henry roars at assembled elders of the town: I will not leave the half-achieved Harfleur Till in her ashes she lie buried. The gates of mercy shall be all shut up, And the flesh'd soldier, rough and hard of heart, In liberty of bloody hand shall range With conscience wide as hell, mowing like grass Your fresh fair virgins and your flow'ring infants...
...each struggled with her own creativity in a hostile world. Many are unknown--Petronilla de Meath, for example, burned as a witch in Ireland in the fourteenth century. She symbolizes the persecution of women in medieval times, a persecution more gory but no more tragic than that which exists till this...