Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Using a battered aluminum can for a ball, they waged endless rounds of home-run derby or argued themselves angry over a game called Strikeout that featured a hard rubber ball, a red brick wall and a chalk-drawn strike zone. "Just me and him," Youmans whispers conspiratorially. "We weren't supposed to--the coaches all the way down the line told us not to--but we'd sneak out and practice throwing curve balls. When he was twelve, I knew. By twelve he had command. Almost nobody could catch his fastball either: he broke one guy's hand, another...
...There weren't too many clouds in the sky yesterday afternoon--but those few hovering above the MIT athletic fields were trying their darndest to look threatening...
...They were knocking on the door a few times, and finally they broke it in," Harvard Coach John Wentzell said. "They were hitting it where we weren't, and eventually that's going to take its toll...
Even when books don't come in on time at the Coop--a real emergency for students--the libraries continue to drag their feet. If the books missing from the Coop weren't on the professor's original reserve request list--as to be expected--then the new request goes to the end of the line, and the books don't show up for weeks or months...
...Wellesley College student grill with my friend Rick, waiting for the bus to take us to the "March for Women's Lives." Many of the women at the grill weren't going on the march. Too much homework. They seemed slightly miffed that two Harvard guys were displaying any sort of social conscience...