Word: certained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Describing co-op life, Sandow said, "We'd party all night, then everybody would get laid. It was great. You can quote me on that." Certain people occasionally came to dinner wearing nothing but a tie and shoes, and at least once an entire nude table, for both sexes, was organized, said Robert R. Terrell '79. There were volleyball games every night after dinner, and Wednesday night poker games. "We played poker like it was a religion," said Sandow...
...residents are not on Harvard's meal plan, so all food is prepared by students. Other chores, such as helping the cook, cleaning the dining room, the kitchen, and living areas, and buying food, are allocated on a point system. House residents must accumulate a certain number of points each semester in order to carry their weight...
...same, those who had money and power were certain that anything wished for--within reason--could be achieved and would...
...wounded. He plays by the book, he says. "I'm accused of holding up nominations and frustrating the will of the Senate. When you look at the record, it's not so." Then that glint flashes again, and he admits, "The reputation is quite valuable, because it has a certain amount of effect. They know I'm capable of it." That they do. Senate colleagues will attest that Helms has SPECIAL HANDLING stamped all over him, and some grumble that he has poured sand into the Senate's engine all too often...
...moxie, they marvel that anyone so -- well, ordinary -- should be where he is. Even Dorothy Helms, the Senator's wife of 46 years, is puzzled: "To me, he's just little Jesse Helms that I married however many years ago. He's a very simple person. He just believes certain things, and he acts on them, and that's it." They met when both were working at the Raleigh News and Observer, she as editor of the society page, he as a sports reporter. They have raised two daughters and a son, whom the Helmses adopted as a 9-year...