Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Irish stock or not, you might consider attending a vigil in memory of the million Irish famine dead, as well in remembrance of all those similarly affected the world over today. Held at the new Boston Irish Famine Memorial, at Washington and School Streets on the Freedom Trail, the 6 p.m. candlelight vigil is a first step. Yours truly, a descendant of fisherman and farmers who came from the remote reaches of northwestern Country Mayo and who is about to graduate from Harvard will be there. Will...
...skill that I have cultivated. The static on my phone line is not generated by electronic interference, but by my own communication difficulties. I fully embrace the prolonged ellipsis, the parenthetical "you-know-what-I-mean" and the awkward pause. Rather than punctuate my fragmented sentences, I let them trail off into my preferred word of closure: "whatever." To the well-trained listener the frequent "like"s that corrupt my language keep an expert tempo--to the rest, I babble...
...more recent years, the trail of revenge has continued. Bethell says that athletes at other schools fight for more than their school's pride when they face the Crimson. As they score those touchdowns, fresh in their memories is the thin-envelope-kiss-of-death. "James Perry, the Brown quarterback who had a record day against Harvard last November, was reportedly discouraged from applying because he wanted to play baseball as well as football and the Harvard coaching staff preferred that he stick to football," Bethell says. Bethell also points to Yale quarterback and Harvard reject Joe Walland...
...more recent years, the trail of revenge has continued. Bethell says that athletes at other schools fight for more than their school's pride when they face the Crimson. As they score those touchdowns, fresh in their memories is the thin-envelope-kiss-of-death. "James Perry, the Brown quarterback who had a record day against Harvard last November, was reportedly discouraged from applying because he wanted to play baseball as well as football and the Harvard coaching staff preferred that he stick to football," Bethell says. Bethell also points to Yale quarterback and Harvard reject Joe Walland...
...skill that I have cultivated. The static on my phone line is not generated by electronic interference, but by my own communication difficulties. I fully embrace the prolonged ellipsis, the parenthetical "you-know-what-I-mean" and the awkward pause. Rather than punctuate my fragmented sentences, I let them trail off into my preferred word of closure: "whatever." To the well-trained listener the frequent "like"s that corrupt my language keep an expert tempo--to the rest, I babble...