Word: beyond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stirring vast outpourings of human emotion with folksy homilies. In his unique fashion, he is rapidly becoming parish priest to the world, and this mission could only be furthered by his U.S. visit. Said the Rev. James Finlay, president of Fordham University in New York City: "He is reaching beyond geographical, political and ecclesiastical boundaries to give the man in the street the feeling that he is there...
...enough to offset the latest price increases. For poverty-line people and the elderly, the situation can be desperate. In Morrisville, Vt., a welfare mother of four made headlines by ripping up the front stoop of her mobile home to use as firewood because oil costs had risen beyond her reach...
...days later, a pair of Oakland P.D. vice-squad officers parked around the corner from the Halvoniks' house and deployed a Bushnell Spacemaster, a telescope with a zoom lens that can magnify up to 45 times beyond the capability of the naked eye. Sure enough, the plants on the balcony were pot. A few hours later, armed with a search warrant, the seeing-eye detectives returned and counted 323 marijuana plants growing around the house. Inside, they found two lids of smokable grass and almost half an ounce of cocaine...
...Haldeman, who had never meddled in substance, and castigated him for interfering at a moment of such crisis. Haldeman grinned shamefacedly, making clear by his bearing that Nixon had put him up to his little speech. I was used to many games from my complex leader; this one was beyond my comprehension-until the revelation of Nixon's taping system suggested a possible motive: the President wanted me unambiguously on record as supporting the operation lest the hated "Georgetown social set" seek to draw a distinction between him and me as they had on Cambodia. Be that...
Eugene J. Green '80, president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Black Students Association (BSA), said earlier in the week, "Black students are tired of picking up the paper and reading about attacks on blacks. Concerned blacks want to go beyond the Harvard sphere...