Word: meets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hadn't seen Chris for months. He's twenty-seven or so, a professional cook, with broad shoulders, a mustache, and a good eye for pool. Every Christmas for the last few years, we meet and play at Rotten Rodney's on Lake Street in Madison, Wisconsin. This year my father joined us and we played cutthroat for a couple hours. My dad went to Harvard, before becoming dean of a string of law schools, Chris paid his own way through school, after doing time on the oil rigs in Montana, and I'm a smart-ass undergraduate...
...head-to-head meet with Army last Saturday in West Point, N.Y., the Harvard women's track team emerged with a convincing 77-41 victory. The men's squad was not so successful against the Cadets, suffering its first defeat of the season...
...feel good." That is how Bridget Mergens explains her attempt five years ago to found a Christian prayer club at Omaha's Westside High School. This week the U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether Westside officials violated the club members' right of free speech by denying them permission to meet after hours on school grounds. Conservatives are hailing the case as their best chance in years to put religion back in the schoolhouse...
...that the refusal violated the 1984 federal Equal Access Act. That measure forbids public secondary schools to discriminate against any student group on the basis of its "religious, political ((or)) philosophical" views, if -- and this is an important if -- those same schools permit other "noncurriculum-related student groups" to meet on their premises during off-hours. The statute fails to define what is meant by noncurriculum related...
...comforting. During her irregular childhood with Zoyd, Prairie sometimes wishes that she could be a member of "some family in a car, with no problems that couldn't be solved in half an hour of wisecracks and commercials." Near the end of the novel, when Prairie gets to meet her mother, nothing will do but that the child sing the theme song from Gilligan's Island...