Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church, like Holmes' store, have been pressed into service as centers for meetings and fund-raising schemes. All told, $10,500 has been collected so far for the legal fees involved in seeking an injunction to block exploratory drilling or digging by APCO−at least until some thorough environmental studies have been made. The case is scheduled for trial in the Abingdon Circuit Court at the end of this month, but the town is beginning to realize that whatever the decision, later appeals may cost them an unimaginable $100,000. That is one reason why they have swallowed...
Ralph Freedman, a native of Germany who teaches comparative literature at Princeton, gives the author a fair and thorough hearing; his admiration for Hesse does not prevent his seeing clearly what an absurd and depressing character he could sometimes be. Freedman takes Hesse far too seriously, but perhaps any biographer is bound to, for Hesse was himself a painfully humorless...
...Harvard men's swimming team ran its dual-meet win streak to 16 last night with an uninspired but nonetheless thorough handling of Brown at the Brown Swim Center...
Transplanted Easterners who started collaborating while they were still teenagers in Los Angeles, Leiber and Stoller, who are now both 45, shared an uncanny gift for crossing musical bloodlines. Both loved black rhythm-and-blues music, and could write it with such glancing wit and thorough funk that their songs sounded fresh off the streets. It is worth keeping in mind that at the time of the first major Leiber-Stoller hit, Hound Dog, released by Willie Mae ("Big Mama") Thornton in 1953, pop music had its own kind of enforced segregation. The sudden, seismic synthesis of mainstream...
Only after a stable of horses has been assembled can a coach expect to pull along such a bandwagon. Against the Cadets, sophomore sensation Bobby Hackett proved once again that he is the thorough-bred of Bernal's annually-improved squad...