Word: bacon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Francis Bacon described a useless person as a vessel that travels the sea and leaves no trace. May we all--Birkenstocks and Guccis--get off the boat and into careers and callings that will make a difference...
Austin was the final Harvard soldier lost in the Great War, adding to the 372 others, ranging from Robert Bacon, Class of 1880 who entered the war when he was 54 and a member of the Harvard Corporation, to Herbert Dickson '22, who had barely enrolled in the College...
...states that knew GM could not build there just for logistical reasons, he said. Nevertheless, government officials submitted formal proposals so they could tell their constituents they had at least tried. "[A politician] always wants to be perceived as someone who tried to bring home the bacon, even if the bacon doesn't arrive...
...better land one, and quickly. He has rolled out a new spot highlighting D'Amato's antiabortion stance, and he keeps trying to persuade New Yorkers that D'Amato's bring-home-the-bacon image is phony. Through all the scandals that have beclouded D'Amato--his relatives and friends got federally funded houses; his brother got to use D'Amato's Senate office as a lobbyist's suite--many voters have clung to one idea: D'Amato may be a blackguard, but he's their blackguard, grabbing whatever he can for the state. Schumer argues that D'Amato...
...hunger sets in, a visit to the snack bar is in order. Here hot dogs revolve on metal spokes, popcorn gyrates and slushies come in watermelon, raspberry, rainbow, cherry and lime. Bacon cheeseburgers, pizza and a plethora of ice cream bars are also available to the overexerted individual. When skating becomes mundane, Wal-Lex offers, quite randomly, candlepin bowling in an effort to entertain its clientele...