Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weren't mad about [not getting in] but we just thought we wanted to sing together as a group. It just started sounding better than we thought it would," Fratto said...
...same light, Harvard Square businesses just don't lose any business by treating students badly. Some in fact seem to thrive on it. Yet, if it weren't for Harvard students the owners of Square restaurants like Pinocchio's and Tommy's wouldn't be able to drive their fancy cars...
Others said they knew deadlines weren't strict and were waiting until they had time to take the test. "I don't remember when my deadline was," said Lisa Donner '90. "It was long ago, the last thing on my list of priorities...
...SELF-DESTRUCTION OF REPUBLICANS seeking the office of governor might have been tragic, if it weren't so funny--and if the incumbent Democratic governor weren't such a star. After embarrassing revelations that Greg Hyatt was seen nude in his office on several occasions and that Royall Switzer had falsified his war record, the Grand Old Party had trouble finding a good old candidate. Eventually, George Kariotis volunteered, but it doesn't make much difference, considering the phenomenal success run up by Governor Michael S. Dukakis in his second four-year term...
...weren't your typical American family," Celia says, and her brother adds, "My parents fostered a little bit of a view of us as outsiders. They are very happy, but they never completely adapted." It wasn't simply that the Byrnes had teatime in the afternoons -- a habit in which David still indulges -- or that Tom Byrne seemed to others to be just the kind of mildly eccentric technowhiz who really could, as family legend insists, have once fixed a submarine with a coat hanger. The Byrnes were politically active and socially liberal; Emma Byrne is a Quaker. Folk...