Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cups in all dining halls besides the Union Even in Adams and Quincy--which try hard to hide their reuseable cups--have mugs or glasses that you can use. Bring your own mug for take-out coffee--it's nicer than paper anyway. Save old handouts and notices and write your rough-drafts of papers, problem sets or letters on the back of them, instead if using fresh paper. Take lecture notes on both sides of each sheet of paper in notebooks or yellow pads. Use handkerchiefs instead of paper tissues--they are cheaper; they don't break; they absorb...
...flippant disdain for authority -- of whatever sort -- earned him the respect of exiled Spaniards who might otherwise have excoriated him for his allegiance in the civil war. In later years his fierce independence won increasing regard. He was among those, after Franco's death, who were asked to write a new Spanish constitution. Beyond that, his best novels, with their violent, poetic hyper-realities, affirmed a tradition that stretches from Cervantes to Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
After a trip to Pearl city hall to write one last check, Malone heads back to the site. The Mississippi Power & Light man is already there, and a Pearl police officer stops by to inform Malone that the move will be delayed until after a funeral passes through town. Malone looks annoyed. He kicks some sod, readjusts his blue Malone House Moving cap and struts over to the rig to recheck the house's support system...
Ostensibly, Stevens sets out to write an account of his motor trip. But he tells a story that he only begins to understand when it and his journey are all but over. He cannot forget Lord Darlington, dead now three years, the gentleman whom he served for so long. He defends his late master against the initially unspecified "utter nonsense" that has been written and spoken about him since the end of World War II. And he fusses over the attributes that create a "great" butler, finally coming up with a definition that satisfies him: "And let me now posit...
...Oppressed Jewry Committee, part of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel, organizes the write-a-thon every year to encourage Soviet officials to allow Jews to emigrate to Israel, said Kanevsky...