Word: celia
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...first the lure was furs, and then whaling, timber and fishing. When the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867 for $7 million, little changed. The gold rushes of the late 1800s brought hordes of prospectors, beginning a boom-and-bust cycle that continues to this day. Says Celia Hunter, a lodge keeper who came to the territory 42 years ago: "Alaskans have always looked for the big bang that would solve all their problems." Some development schemes were downright absurd. In the late 1950s, Hunter helped quash a proposal to use atom bombs to blast an artificial harbor...
...forget about his rubber duckie when he played the sax. The Muppets sounded like Louie Armstrong. The procession of celebrities was endless. First, John Candy. Then, Jane Curtin, Pee Wee Herman, the New York Mets, the New York Giants, Ladysmith Black Mombazu, Paul Simon, Danny DeVito, salsa queen Celia Cruz, etc. All telling Ernie to "put down the duckie" for a while. It was a rare treat, a scene that affirms Sesame Street's place as the most original show on television...
YALE (79): Randi Meberg 14-2--30; Paula Kenefick 8-2--19; Tonya Lawrence 4-2--10; Mary Spolyar 3-9--15; Karen Canavan 0-3--3; Anne Peacock 0-0--0; Celia Shutz 1-0--2; Jeminie Shell 0-0--0; Katie Hackett...
Many of those elected with Julia mirrored her reaction. Most showed pleasant surprise and said that election to Phi Beta Kappa had never been one of their goals. "Why would anyone set Beta as a goal? It is the work that goes into it that matters," said Celia Wren of Quincy House said...
...Matera, Literature, Mather House; Martha L. Moore, Religion, Lowell House; Penelope C. Papailias, American Literature, Eliot House; Annie Penn, Biology, Dunster House; Lisa P. Reiss, Psychology, Winthrop House; Kathryn E. Rorer, American Literature, Eliot House; Elizabeth Safran, Geological Sciences, Cabot House; Heidi M.V. Sullivan, Anthropology, Lowell House; and Celia M. Wren. Literature, Quincy House...