Word: weren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...true that I was sometimes lenient and looked the other way, and my students knew that, " he says. "The reason was that there were more important things to focus on: were they happy, were they enjoying their classes, etc. , and if they weren't, what could we do to make them happy...
...Last year, the Ivies weren't very strong, " McLaughlin said. "They're pretty wide open this year. It should be a good fight. "CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerGIMME THE BALL! : Senior TOM MCLAUGHLIN, who Harvard will rely upon as a major scoring threat, dribbles the ball past a defender...
...neighbors weren't thrilled when Tyree Guyton began hanging hundreds of old shoes in the big tree on Heidelberg Street on Detroit's east side back in 1986. A few complained to him but were calmed by Guyton's passionate explanation that the dangling shoes celebrated their black ancestors lynched in the South. Residents probably should have asked Guyton whether Soles of the Most High completed his artistic vision for their block. It didn't. Eleven years later, thousands of used shoes are piled by the sidewalk and hanging in the trees--along with rusty car hoods and tires strewn...
...full-fledged happening. By word of mouth, via friend of a friend, with photocopied flyers posted in music stores, Burning Man quietly gathered a tribe of hundreds each summer to partake in the meaningless but mesmerizing ritual. And there, in its seclusion, it might still be, if it weren't for cyberspace...
...things weren't so simple back on Earth, where news organizations seemed to be divided over whose account to trust, NASA or the Russian Space Agency. Russian Mission Control, who had had the most recent conversation with the cosmonauts and claimed everything was fine, did not seem to be quoted as often as NASA ? who were still fretting based on an earlier conversation with Michael Foale. We'll find out for sure on Tuesday, when Mir comes back into communication range...