Word: trashed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fighting without hatred is purposeless, so regretfully he wishes you some hatred too. But not much, and not to hold too long. There is always more cheapness in the world than you suspect, but less than you believe at the time it touches you. Just don't let the trash build up. And there is much to praise...
...good month. "I was paying $400 a month for child care," she recalls. "We didn't buy anything." When that failed, she began bringing her children to work with her, hiding them in an empty home- economics classroom while she mopped floors and hauled huge barrels of trash for eight hours a day. "I'd sneak them in after the teacher left and check on them every 30 minutes or so." She finally quit last February and slipped onto the welfare rolls. She applied for state child-care assistance, only to learn there were 3,000 others on the waiting...
...personal habits are less regal. He can often be seen tooling around Cambridge in a repainted Volkswagen Beatle--a gift of his mother--and picking up trash as he walks through the Yard. The first President not to reside in the official president's house at 17 Quincy Street, Bok lives instead off campus at Elmwood, formerly the residence of the dean of the Faculty. And while some of his administrators are taking breakfast at the Faculty Club, Bok prefers a hale early morning coffee at the Wursthaus in the Square. "They all know him there," says Rosovsky...
High wire fences separate the United Nations refugee camp at Dheisheh from the rest of Bethlehem. Within, Palestinian children, hiding behind mounds of trash and rubble, sometimes hurl stones at passing cars. Deeper in the shadows, young Arab men vie for political ascendancy with threats of violence. Misbah Mohammed Rizq, 58, is Dheisheh's camp leader. For 30 years Abu Nabil, as Rizq is known, has doled out the U.N.'s meager rations, seen that the camp's fetid sanitation system works and interceded with the Israeli military government to keep his people out of trouble. He performs his difficult...
...fire in a fourth-floor trash closet sent students, babies and pet cats scurrying into the lobby of Currier House early this morning...