Word: seemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whole team got to swim today," Harvard Coach Maura Costin-Scalise said, "and for those people who didn't compete at the Alabama Invitational, it was only their second meet of the season, and some just didn't seem to have the spark. I think I have a better idea of our depth...
...seemed appreciative of the time and effort on the part of the students," Donziger said, "and...he did seem surprised that there were so many letters. We felt like the dean demonstrated remorse over these comments as he did in earlier over comments he made in national publications...
Even some undergraduates who otherwise seem concerned with the staff-student relationship have been unwilling to deal with the issue openly and explicitly. In an internal memorandum, Thomas J. Conally, Jr. '90 and newly-elected PBHA president Rosa A. Ehrenreich '91 argued that facts of the Reeves incident should not be openly presented in front of the entire cabinet, writing that it would be wrong to "burden Cabinet with demoralizing, unpleasant and unproductive information...
Never mind the Soviet economy, Mikhail Sergeyevich; what have you done to the spy-thriller industry? Now that the Berlin Wall has started coming down, cold warriors are not the only ones whose smiles must seem a trifle forced. Spy novelists, like Pentagon budgeteers, need the Wall to make their fictions believable. What's a secret agent to do now? Set up a kiosk and sell FREIHEIT T shirts...
That sort of crudeness, recent events seem to be saying, is no longer imaginable. Thus agent Samson, with his perfect, idiomatic Berliner Deutsch and his deep knowledge of levels of murk and treachery on both sides of the Wall, is suddenly out of date. As are, an optimist dutifully believes, many thousands of border guards, KGB head beaters and assassins in the real world. Espionage will go on, of course, but presumably it will be of the corporate kind, waged among Japan, Korea and the European Community, which is apt to | include Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, what used to be called...