Word: ve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harrison and his team are confident despite the impressive statisties that surround the Redmen. The Crimson has been practicing new offensive and defensive patterns in an effort to stop them. "We've got a lot to prove to the fans here and we hope we can start tonight," Harrison said...
...scene switched to President Hackerman, who had been sitting in his office hoping the whole thing would blow over. (I've talked with him on several different occasions, and he's a very nice sort of guy.) That afternoon, while I was in class, about 400 students picked up tree branches cut from the fallen trees and, like Birnam Wood advancing on Macbeth, dragged them to the tower, where they stacked the limbs in front of the doorway. The doors had already been locked by the campus police. (In the meantime, someone had started a fire in the janitor...
With the exception of the two relays, the individual medley, and the breast-stroke, the meet was not very exciting, as the Chiefs could win only three events. "We've got a lot of work to do yet," said Harvard coach Bill Brooks, "but some of the times weren...
WHICH WOULD be fine if the book meekly promised to make its points according to some set up we've all seen before. A hip sermon maybe, railing against whatever the author feels up to taking on, or a straight allegory with an easy one-to-one correspondence between the symbols and what they represent, or even a clever satire with the edge precisely sharpened on some well-turned witticisms. But in this book, you never know what's going to come up next. One minute you're riding along, pleased with yourself for having figured out the subtleties hidden...
...illusions about herself, and can examine her position with dispassion. "I'm trying to purge myself of all the mannerisms I've used up to this point. I have never had a high opinion of myself as an actress, but I'm determined to develop, and I keep looking for ways to improve. If after a couple of years I decide that I can't make it as a serious actress, then I'll just quit...