Word: disappointments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...something to pose in front of and students will have something to deface. Harvard was founded by an act of the Massachusetts colonia; legislature, but it seized upon John Harvard as a convenient norminal founder, and used him as an excuse to erect a statue so as not to disappoint anyone...
...Janice Darlene Chamberlin, 39, a singer and writer, and close friend of four years; he for the eighth time, she for the second; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Confided the bride about her new husband: "Mickey believes so much in the institution of marriage that I can't disappoint...
...hoping he wouldn't disappoint me, and he didn't. Richard Schickel's review of If Ever I See You Again tells it like it was: sloppy tripe, with not even good-looking actors to redeem it. I hadn't been to a movie in ten years when I went to see it. Now it will...
Carter's urban policy appears fairly sound and workable. But it will doubtless disappoint many urban leaders. Most disillusioned of all may be blacks, whose expectations were sent soaring by Carter's campaign promises. Last week Vernon Jordan, executive director of the Urban League and one of the most influential black spokesmen on economic issues, called again for a domestic Marshall Plan to revitalize distressed cities. But his approach would cost many billions of dollars, which puts him far out of step with Jimmy Carter...
...sorry to disappoint you," I replied, "but no threat will ever be posed...