Word: upping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was plenty of entertainment for the guest schools. Saturday, Lincoln staged a parade in front of the Cornhusker Hotel, where the players from the visiting schools were staying. Locals called the annual parade their version of the Macy's Parade. Gigantic floats and high school bands entertained the city...
THE work begins in earnest each morning at 8 a.m., which is before I--and most other undergraduates--wake up. For the first several weeks, the construction was tolerable. The workers merely moved dirt around all day. The only noise was the ceaseless beeping made by the backhoes as they...
Like an unpleasant alarm, the banging eventually wakes me up. Unlike an unpleasant alarm, the banging doesn't disappear with the flip of a switch. It keeps going all day.
There is a sort of poetry in absorbing the details of the construction process. Many a day have I laid aside my books and stared intensely at the backhoes, as they scoop dirt up, swivel around, dump it elsewhere and pat it down. This is an immense improvement over watching...
Still, though, in spite of all the fringe benefits, the noise is driving me crazy! Why couldn't these buildings go up in the middle of the Yard, or at the Quad, or on the Boston Common? Why in my back yard?