Word: barbarae
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...surprise when Grandma Barbara Bush said in a speech on Friday how interesting it was to have known the President in his unpresidential days, adding dryly--and pointedly--that George was now "getting back some of his own." The crowd roared in a we've-been-there sort of way. Barbara found a middle ground between where Bill Clinton would be--calling Jesse Jackson in to pray and harking back to his alcoholic father--and the total silence of her son George. Calling it a "private matter," White House press secretary Ari Fleischer scolded reporters. "Do you want the American...
...first of the two new studies, John Alroy of the University of California, Santa Barbara, used a computer simulation to determine whether overkilling by human was a conceivable cause of the wave of extinction, which occurred about 1200 years after humans are believed to have arrived in North America 13,400 years ago. The simulation took into account factors ranging from population density to hunting ability, and was able to correctly predict the extinction of 32 out of the 41 species studied...
...Barbara raised her hand. ?When the police found you wearing grandmother?s tennis dress claiming to be Captain Zog of the Performance Art People were you our age or younger?? she asked...
...apple brandy doesn't spill too far from the snifter," hooted the elder Barbara Bush, smashing a walnut in between her palms. "Barbara," said the silver fox, "You've got my name. I am one of the most respected women in America. How could...
...Though national and international figures have been more prevalent on the Commencement stage, writers, philosophers and scholars-such as novelists Lady Barbara Ward Jackson in 1957 and Ralph Ellison in 1974--have shared their words with the masses as well. And while they may not have the same potential for international impact, Hunt says, they make up for it in eloquence...