Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increased. Suddenly it swelled and I saw a surging tidal wave of baby blue helmets, and baby-blue jackets criss-crossed wildly by thick brown clubs. The cops were rushing into the landing way behind the steps, smashing their clubs down on the kids who were waiting helpless. They weren't looking where they were hitting, just holding their clubs up and bringing them down as quickly and in as many directions as they could. I heard moans, and saw a boy run from two cops holding his bleeding head as they swung at him. A furious rage came into...
...just weren't getting the people," saysSweet Stuff's assistant manager Donald O'Hare, whoworked at the Charles Square confectioner's beforeits closing last May. O'Hare attributes the lackof traffic in the mall to the Square's location,which is one of the problems even the successfullyestablished businesses are still facing...
...were the better team," epee fencer Jim O'Neil said. "We weren't excited and they were pretty psyched to beat...
Jerry Doolittle has never been exactly the Harvard type. His grades in high school weren't very good, he boasts about his poor attitude, and he was kicked out of prep school. But Harvard wanted him to teach freshmen anyway...
When he was a reporter in the 1960s, newspapers weren't really interested in ideas like "What happens to animals at the zoo when they die? Who gets the rug?" So in 1966, Doolittle started working for the government--first at the U.S. Information Agency in Casablanca, then as the embassy press attache in Laos. "I was the Larry Speakes of the war effort in Laos," he says...