Word: clues
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have earned the Currier House resident high marks from the department, but his unusual interest in poultry also earned him the name "Captain Chicken" from some of his friends. Nevertheless, Anderson was one of the first to do research on the dispute which, he says, "no one has any clue about." Despite the strange epithet he received from his friends. Anderson has turned his knowledge into a possible job: he is up for a job as confidential adviser to the Undersecretary of Agriculture for International Affairs...
...They believed us and made an uneasy peace with the system. Sooner than we, they realized that they would have to earn their way after graduation, and they returned to their books, their exams, and graduate school. We left them, at most, with a bad conscience, but without a clue about what to do with their lives and knowledge...
...only device used to destroy Harvard's books. Some annotaters opt for the more efficient method of making brackets in the margins--which at least annoys future readers a little less. Others add their own insights. "This is stupid," or "Imperialistic bull"--as if to clue in the world as to the true nature of a particular passage...
...State William H. Seward. The two Cabinet members spend much time squabbling; Hay frequents a Washington brothel. All three observers are, unfortunately, tongue-tied when it comes to reporting on Honest Abe: "As usual, Hay wondered what the President was thinking; as usual, he did not have the slightest clue. ... How, Seward wondered, not for the first time, did this man's mind work? ... Curious, thought Chase, how little anyone really knew about this new President...
...century, J.R.R. Tolkien in The Hobbit offered a few original puzzles: "A box without hinges, key or lid. Yet golden treasure inside is hid." Answer: An egg. The sport trickled down to Gotham City, home of Batman and Robin; in a recent comic-book adventure, the Riddler leaves a clue to the locale of his next crime: "When is a horse most like a stamp collection?" Answer: When it's a hobby horse (a reference to Hobby Airport in Houston...