Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This sparked a Harvard shooting spree that looked like a wild western shootout, but still no Harvard goals...
...still do not think I will be going out to western Massachusetts to chop down my own tree--unless, of course, I run out of other inspirational decorations to hang--but I think that a little holiday spirit can go a long way during the endless final weeks before vacation. The end of December doesn't bring the joy of closure that is felt at other schools with the end of exams. And the anticipation usually associated with the coming of the first snow is not an issue, since the first snow has long since come and gone almost...
...there has been any consolation for proud Russian scientists, it's that these problems have occurred out of sight of Western eyes. But the space agency--long a symbol of Russian technical prowess and widely considered to be the best in the world as recently as the late 1980s--could not slip so quietly into eclipse...
...Western Pennsylvania has definitely been a gold mine for Harvard football in recent years, as Bibro is the third consecutive Pittsburgh native to take the torch for the Crimson...
Even if Mobutu lasts that long, the integrity of his nation, a colonial creation that lashes together some 200 tribes across a region the size of Western Europe, is already at risk. Only Mobutu's will and wizardry have held the place together for so long. His style of rule combines charisma with a flair for draconian repression. (As part of an "authenticity campaign" in the '70s to divest Zaire of its European taint, he outlawed bow ties, public kissing and Christmas.) But he also successfully marketed his country to the West as a bulwark against Soviet expansion in Africa...