Word: alienate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alien experience for me. At Harvard, students will sell their younger siblings to get exemptions from the QRR or Lit & Arts B--but not to waste an entire afternoon across the river. So few students attend the games--and so few who do attend cheer--that Harvard football is the only team in the country that needs confidence-building by professionals when the team wins...
...alien experience for me. At Harvard, students will sell their younger siblings to get exemptions from the QRR or Lit & Arts B--but not to waste an entire afternoon across the river. So few students attend the games--and so few who do attend cheer--that Harvard football is the only team in the country that needs confidence-building by professionals when the team wins...
...seemed in a way like August 1914. The President's adamancy in sticking to his Maine vacation (the tense, almost angry flailing at golf balls, the powerboat Fidelity bucking out of harbor, a war getting organized by cellular phone) contributed to an air of the surreal. So did the alien theater of war: the Saudi peninsula's shimmering heat, its lunar landscapes, its customs and culture out of other centuries altogether...
...drowsy calm of a little town like Sturgis, S. Dak. (pop. 5,300), it is usually easy to notice when even one alien motorcyclist guns into town. But last week 275,000 showed up, along with a camp following of 42 portable tattoo parlors, for the 50th annual Black Hills Motor Classic. Bikers packed motels as far away as Sundance, Wyo., some 40 miles to the west. For seven days, they turned four blocks of Sturgis' Main Street into chopper gridlock, gathering for rock concerts (Allman Brothers, Steppenwolf, BTO), hill-climbing contests, an amateur female topless contest and motorcycle rodeos...
...Yankee ingenuity and derring-do, the pride of the U.S. and the envy of the world. The very mention of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration evoked images of intrepid astronauts walking in space and frolicking on the moon, of sophisticated robot craft swooping past ringed and rocky alien worlds. To millions of people around the globe, the voice of Mission Control was the true Voice of America...