Word: bore
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adele Chatfield-Taylor both spoke, after flipping a coin to see who would go first. (She did.) In a boisterous, though notably erudite, bit of counterpoint to the family theme, graduates of Harvard's School of Public Health tossed into the air hundreds of condoms encased in envelopes that bore the Latin message ad venerem securiorem. Translation: "for safe sex." Herewith a sampling of other, more formal messages to the Class of '87 from commencement speakers around the nation...
...misses. For there is an inherent problem about any sequel that too slavishly duplicates the style and substance of its predecessor; it cannot deliver the delight of discovery that the original provided. Axel made a swell first impression, but he is still living on it, perhaps not yet a bore, but not quite as fascinating as he once promised to be. This is not going to bother the apparently vast audience that now exists for twice-told tales about familiar figures. And it makes life easy for the guys in marketing and very likely delightful for those in accounting...
...soon stopped, and I realized that what in my initial panic I had thought to be a shattered lower jaw was in fact only a superficial scrape. I was kicked once or twice and stepped on, and had my hair pulled three times before the curtain call, but I bore it all with equanimity. The worst was over...
...natural and dreadful culmination of Elvis' attitude towards women came in his final slide, a cartoon of a naked woman pinned under a clothed man. None of her limbs were free; she was helpless. The scene looked, in fact, like a rape. Above this rape a sign bore the word "think...
...package was addressed to Williams Hall, home of the Romance Languages department, but bore the street address of a Penn fraternity, Pi Lamda Phi, three blocks away.. The package, marked with Miami and Colombia postmarks, had arrived at the mail room three weeks earlier, said Randall Lane, a reporter for The Daily Pennsylvanian, the student newspaper...