Word: belonged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time onto the stage of the Hasty Pudding Theater. An intense excitement ran like electricity through my body--I was finally standing on one of the oldest and most famous stages in America. This uplifting sensation was almost immediately eclipsed, however, by the realization that I would never belong to this stage, performing the show for which it's known. Before self-pity could consume me, however, this feeling was replaced by the hard realization that every female performer in the cast felt likewise...
...teeth in our sinks, even shower in our bathrooms (and don't even think they aren't using our shampoo). We at Dartboard urge all upstanding Harvard men and women: Do not tolerate this breach of community! Gong them out the door, back to their real rooms, where they belong...
...Judaism part that discouraged me even before I got to the Museum. I expected to be one of few Christians intruding into an event meant to galvanize a culture of which I was not a part; while I could appreciate all that I saw, I could never really belong. My grandmother gave me a delicate gold crucifix on a chain when I made my First Holy Communion (the gift is a tradition on the Italian Catholic side of the family), and it crossed my mind that perhaps I should have worn it. In a sense, I wanted my crucifix...
...designed to open up Western land with federal water for small farmers and their families. The intent, as Theodore Roosevelt's first reclamation chief, F.H. Newell, made clear in 1905, was to help the little guy: "It is not to irrigate the lands which now belong to large corporations...but [to put] land...into the hands of the small owner, whereby the man with a family can get enough land to support that family...
...business of chronicling celebrity life. It's just something he, like a dwindling few of his fellow citizens, is trying to live with (and in his case, make a living from) as rationally as possible. He guesses that Robin's self-consciousness, her sense that she doesn't belong in the same room with the rich and famous, will play well on TV. She's as addled as anyone in her audience would be in fast company, so of course viewers identify with her. And grant her stardom...