Word: working
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Responsibility for the Thanksgiving Day dinner and its 350-odd student patrons is rotated every year among the river houses. Adams House will host this year's gala, from noon to 2 p.m. tomorrow. But Dining Services Assistant Manager Ronald Cockroft is not bitter about having to work on the holiday...
Chinese classes are incredible; we take two hours of grammar, two hours of writing and two hours of conversation every day. But here, all that work doesn't feel academic at all, because we use it every day. It's like taking an ongoing course on survival while you are out camping in the woods...
COCA's other main objective is to work with the people of Central America for social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
...story called An Exorcism, Bernard Malamud wrote of Eli Fogel, a middle-aged author suddenly saddled with a young acolyte named Gary Simson. Fogel enjoys the veneration, up to a point; his work has garnered moderate recognition and less money. But Simson's relentless requests for advice, tips on writing and letters of recommendation distract Fogel from his own efforts, in this case his slow progress in finishing another novel: "Perfection comes hard to an imperfectionist. He had visions of himself dying before the book was completed. It was a terrible thought: Fogel seated at the table, staring...
Fearing that racism is involved, Sikh leaders point out that turbaned Sikhs served in the British army in two world wars and now work in many Canadian police forces. After seven months' study, the government has still not decided whether the Mounties will get their turbaned...