Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...where they educated Puritans, where they are looking for cures for cancer and where faculty members defended their rights to hold any opinions they chose in the face of the McCarthys and the Nixons. They called it the "Kremlin on the Charles" back then and although nobody in the know would call it that today, it is still teaching and finding things that people do not want to learn about or find...
Harrow smiles from behind his horn-rimmed sunglasses. "I know," he says, but I'm comfortable here." A1 Harrow knows deep down that he is sitting in the hot sun in his olive green suit and hound's tooth the to have something to do. But no one is laughing out loud at him, and he is having a fine time playing Lou Harris for the afternoon...
...been at this sport for ten, maybe 12 years," he begins, reluctantly closing his tattered book. "It's a good spot. Lots of people pass by. I do okay...You know, some years I make a little, more, some years a little less. Who cares as long as you can eat? I'm not exactly in a position to go out looking for a job. (Chuckles.) Look, life is tough... Who knows about inflation, or whatever, not me. I try to get enough to eat. Everyone has to struggle. Why should this country be different...
...difference over the years has been that people don't have time for anything anymore. People don't stop and talk to me, you know, say a little 'hello,' a little 'how are you,' or whatever. Everyone rushes. Now with this convention business, even more...more rushing. Is this a way to live? Rushing about? No. I don't think...
...talk in 'maybes.' All I know is that in the time between the last primary and the convention, the nominee can be thrown in jail on a rape charge, and we couldn't do nothing about it...The delegate is elected to use someone else's power. The power has been dele-gated, right? Well, how can they use that power if they are chained?" (Crosses his arms again...