Word: affixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accepted the peerage was tinged with sadness. Robed in resplendent red with ermine trim, he seemed to personify Britain's decline as a great power. He stood frail and trembling, an aging lion leaning on a walking stick concealed beneath his robes. When it came time for him to affix his signature to the act of his ennoblement, Macmillan fumbled and had to be guided. Then, straight and firm, he held the paper containing the oath close to his failing eyes and read his pledge in a clear, ringing voice: "I Harold, Earl of Stockton, do swear by Almighty...
Cazden said she sent a mailing to all 260 faculty, administrators, and staff members of the Ed School and 89 of them agreed to affix their names to the petition calling for Harvard to divest of its $416 million in South Africa-related investments...
...committee yesterday also approved a senior class proposal that the college affix stickers to the identification cards of all seniors of legal drinking-age. Senior class marshall Anne C. Bailey '86 said class officials have had trouble arranging senior week events without a standardized, university-sanctioned means of identifying those of legal drinking...
...their two children in Houston. But wherever he went, he kept memories and icons of his past. Before his first space flight, he presented the Mission Control staff with coffee beans and macadamia nuts from Hawaii. For last week's flight, he persuaded the staff to let him affix a University of Colorado emblem on a satellite that was to track Halley's comet. Onizuka also brought along his college ring. "He wears it whenever he flies," said his wife. Several years ago he visited his family's ancestral gravesite in Japan. The elderly priest of the Buddhist temple where...
...ripples there were. Within the first few weeks of the semester a chorus of groans could be heard from undergraduates who worried that they might soon have to affix their signatures to papers and exams and perhaps even report a peer who has run afoul of the rules. The criticisms ranged from the insipid--that it was nostalgia for his alma mater, honor-bound Princeton that motivated Spence to undertake the study--to the pragmatic--that if the system ain't broke don't fix it--to the serious--no one wants to bust a buddy. Surely, such a cosmopolitan...