Word: boyfriend
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard Science Center, but dreamed of becoming a clothing designer. "I always made my own clothes when I was younger," she says. "My parents bought me a Singer sewing machine, and certainly when I had no money here, I made everything myself." She eventually followed her then boyfriend, a Harvard Law School grad, to New York City, where she enrolled in classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology and, after a while, landed a job at the sportswear label Harvé Benard...
...raised her died. "She was a woman who worked wonders," murmurs Maisonet, who says she doesn't know her mother and isn't close to her dad. After the death, her family of six siblings fell apart. Maisonet has lived sometimes with an aunt, sometimes with a boyfriend, and sometimes she had no place to go. "I was a good student until my grandmother passed away," says the 19-year-old redhead from the Bronx. Though she was enrolled in high school, she earned just three credits in two years: "I completely shut down. I didn't do good...
...secret reasons" that have little connection with religion and everything to do with private tragedy or shame. Some see becoming a suicide bomber as preferable to an arranged marriage, common in the Arab world. One teenager volunteered for suicide duty because her father refused to let her marry a boyfriend. As a female student from Birzeit University says, "I'd rather spend my life in an Israeli prison than trapped with a husband that I didn't love...
Giant pandas are like a boyfriend or girlfriend who is staggeringly good looking but otherwise brainless and self-absorbed. Pandas often have to be artificially inseminated because so many have lost the most primal of urges. When pandas reproduce, many cubs have to be cared for by zookeepers because the mothers take no interest in them. Over time, pandas have worked themselves into an impossible ecological niche. They eat almost nothing but bamboo shoots and then, depending upon their appetite at the moment, only certain varieties. If the right kind of bamboo is unavailable, they will starve to death...
Stephanie J. Brinton ’10 and Lindsey M. Parker ’10 are the kind of made-for-each-other couple that inspires equal parts exasperation and admiration from their single peers. A boyfriend and girlfriend matched in height and sunny dispositions, they demonstrate a discreet, natural sort of affection in public—often trading conspiratorial smiles or finishing each other’s sentences...