Word: never
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Crimson never really found its shooting touch, scoring at a 39 percent clip on the night. It was even weaker from three-point range, sinking only 3-of-16. But Harvard played a fundamentally sound game, committing only 15 turnovers, tallying 20-of-26 from the free-throw line and getting great ball movement...
...book's tone is reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut. Vonnegut's novels never fasten down on a specific moment in time and progress from there. Some of his more memorable characters are the couple on airplane in Cat's Cradle, who boast that they are Hoosiers. Natural, comfortable feelings of closeness are never present in these novels, whose characters find satisfaction only in artificial, relatively cold institutions...
...checkers never knew what hit them. For one thing, few security guards ever check bags thoroughly. Often they are too engrossed in their reading or conversation to even look up. When they do, it is usually only to take a casual glance at the contents of bags and purses. I usually waltz on by, perhaps exchanging good night...
...Never do they examine all the contents of each bag that passes out the door. (Even the most aggressive of the checkers ignore small pockets in these bags which easily can carry two or three books.) Never do they check oversized coat pockets. Rarely do they examine magazines to make sure they are not library copies...
...small child I loved to read. I read everything I could get my hands on from Nancy Drew Mysteries to Judy Blume. As I continued on in school I found time and time again that my desire to submerge myself completely in the fantasy world of the novel was never quite fulfilled. While I could read anything during my free time, the scope of the novels I read for academic purposes was severely limited. I frequently found myself asking teachers to make an exception so that I could do outside reading projects on the likes of Baldwin, Hurston or Langston...