Word: butts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas where people sit drugged by canned entertainment." As for the name "buttery," Saarinen made clear that he was not thinking of dairy products, pointedly cited the Oxford Dictionary derivation: "Buttery, sb. ME. (app. a. OF. boterie - bouteillerie:-late L. botaria, f. bota, var. of butta cask, bottle; see BUTT...
According to fireman John Lally, the conflagration was caused by a cigar butt left on the sofa. David N. Owen '61, a neighbor of the damaged suite, said he had smelled smoke for half an hour before turning in the alarm, but his roommates convinced him "it was only stale pretzels." Occupants of the I-43 suite were absent at the time...
...physicist promptly falls under his spell. Pearl Harbor packs Mark off to war and sets Sebastian fervently to work on the Bolt, or the Monster, as Author Chevalier interchangeably calls the atom bomb. At war's end, a grieving, disbelieving Ampter discovers that Sebastian has made him the butt of something very like the "Chevalier incident...
...field, they are finance majors (all Bs and Cs), who fret mildly because they cannot find identical twins to date-"not even unattractive ones." But on the field, they butt heads with unalloyed pleasure. Drawls Stanford Coach Jack Curtice: "Those boys could go bear hunting with a switch and come back with meat." Admits Marlin: "We get. sheer pleasure out of football-out of knocking people down. It's just plain...
SCARCELY any country on earth is less fitted to serve as a pivotal point in the struggle against Communism than Laos, a land of blue mountains, green jungles and affably unambitious people. Roughly the size of Oregon, Laos is shaped like a pistol with the butt pressing against Red China and the barrel aimed at Cambodia. Statistics are foreign to the Laotian mind, and the population can only be guessed at; estimates range from 1,000,-ooo to 4,000,000. Though it possesses two capital cities-Luangprabang for the royal family. Vientiane for the civil government-Laos...