Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These meets at the end of the year are great opportunities for us to perfect our races in time for Easterns," Co-Captain Keith Kaplan said. "We thought that Penn would be geared up for this one, and they did shave about half of their team, but obviously they weren't up to the challenge that our fast swimming gave them...
...lost," Harvard Tri-Captain Brita Lind said. "We just weren't up for the game, and we should have been...
...wasn't so much that they played well as much as that we played poorly," Dooley said. "When you play a superior team, everybody has to be ready to play, and we weren't. They're the best team in women's hockey, [but] that's no excuse for our not playing with intensity and desire...
...Bronx, I saw young black men wearing chains with what I thought was the peace symbol. I thought, how interesting that these young men, living in such difficult circumstances, would still be concerned about such issues as world peace. And then I came to realize that these weren't peace symbols -- they were the hood ornament from a Mercedes. And they knew everything about a Mercedes, how much it cost, how fast it would go. They knew Mercedes as the car of choice of the drug dealer. Money, greed, reaches all through society...
...love his books. As a child I couldn't understand, since his name was the same, why we weren't related. He was a maximalist, and that's what I admire. Somebody once told him to take out all that was not necessary. And he said, "No. I'm a putter-inner." And that's what I am, a putter-inner...