Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little wonder that many gifted minority students have poorer grades and test scores than less able white students who are not handicapped by the same socioeconomic disadvantages. The goal of the minority-admissions programs is to seek out minority students who, notwithstanding inferior grades and test scores, are believed to be as able as their white classmates and therefore equally deserving of higher education...
Johnson and Martignetti hired Universal Sound, a ten-piece band from Berklee School of Music for tonight's party. Johnson says the group will play a lot of Stevie Wonder music and just "the finest in dancing music," adding that the $1.50 cover charge will include free beer and soft drinks...
...past three presidents have tried to mobilize public opinion on the energy crisis and were unable to do so. You wonder how many calling cards it takes to get the attention of the American people," she said...
...football triumpth was the Crimson's 12th in a row away from Cambridge, so you have to wonder about the food in the Houses, about the home cooking, about the home field advantage...
...pilgrims of the spirit can avoid sounding cheaply pious or painfully oversincere. Dillard's literary salvation is tier sense of wonder and intensity. Sometimes she is ostentatious, as in her description of the Pacific coastline, "the fringey edge where elements meet and realms mingle, where time and eternity spatter each other with foam." But at their best, Dillard's sentences have a clean, penetrating edge. "The higher Christian churches," she writes, "come at God with an unwarranted air of professionalism. . . as though they knew what they were doing ... If God were to blast such a service to bits...