Word: dearingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholars proceeded to turn Harvard down, and some professors are gloomy about the prospects of luring the third. Stanford's Nancy Tuma. "Her husband has tenure--why should he take a risk and come here when everyone who has tenure these days is holding on for dear life? says Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson...
...Dear Tom: Did it ever occur to you that two of the top candidates have already held the offices of vice chairman and secretary in student government, and they might know that these positions would not fully allow them to make the contribution to the success of the Undergraduate Council that they would like? And in reference to the office of treasurer, perhaps none of us wanted the controversy and bookkeeping responsibilities. Just maybe we found it inappropriate to run for another publicized office as some sort of consolation. You seem to forget that there are other leadership positions within...
...Dear Mr. Reardon...
...year-old graduate student at the Wharton School of Business, who had been found dead of cyanide poisoning in his apartment last April 3. His death had been ruled a suicide, largely on the strength of a note Pascual had mailed to his mother in Arlington, Va. ("Dear Mom: It wasn't your fault. It was mine, all mine"). At the time, analysis of three Tylenol capsules from a bottle found in a shoe in the closet uncovered no poison, but analysis last week of the remaining capsules, which were still in police storage, did turn up cyanide...
...commonness of mind, and references to his own sex life are usually oblique and always discreet. In one entry, in which he takes a splenetic swipe at Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot ("pretentious gibberish"), he goes on to attack Mary Renault's The Charioteer. "Oh dear," he says, "I do, do wish well-intentioned ladies would not write books about homosexuality. It takes the hero - soidisant - 300 pages to reconcile himself to being queer as a coot, and his soul-searching and deep, deep introspection is truly awful. There are 'queer' parties in which everyone...