Word: commonness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Friday night there will be an invitation-only dinner in Memorial Hall for about 400 people including house masters, members of the Senior Common Room and undergraduate representatives from student organizations. The following night, there will be an open ball in Memorial Hall and under a tent outside the Science Center at which the John Harvard replica will make its appearance. All undergraduates will receive engraved, mailed invitations to the ball over the summer...
...little in common with middle and upper class suburbanites who made up the bulk of his Harvard classmates...
...Bundy to A. Lawrence Lowell. Vigeland notes such amazing facts as that old George passed up the chocolate chip cookies at lunch, and lets him get away with comments like, "Being on the Corporation is fun. You meet interesting people. And it's a way of having something in common with your children who are in school...
Crack's immediate effects are readily observable: chronic sore throats and hoarseness are common. Crack can leave a user gasping for breath and vulnerable to emphysema. But these complaints pale in comparison with the even more dangerous changes that crack triggers in the body. Crack, says Masi, "throws the entire cardiovascular system into turmoil. Your blood vessels rapidly constrict. You're a key candidate for respiratory failure." Dramatically increased blood pressure and heart rate can lead to coronary attacks, and the intense stimulation of the brain may trigger convulsions...
...Siegel of UCLA outlines four stages to cocaine addiction. First comes euphoria, a feeling of stimulation and sexual excitement, soon followed by sadness and depression. Much later come irritability, sleeplessness and paranoia. The fourth stage, says Siegel, "is a schizophrenic-like psychosis, complete with delusions and hallucinations." One nightmare common to addicts is that bugs are crawling over their skin. Heavy crack smokers can go through all four stages in a single drug binge...