Word: deign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more sophisticated crowd with whom to rock (that is, if they deign to rock with you), check out Rock'n'Roll Sushi at Gyuhama, 827 Boylston Street (Copley T-station across from Lord and Taylor). While Gyuhama often hosts Harvard's own intro Japanese class field trips during the day, the restaurant turns "cool" at night and hosts those who ditch class...
...when the two become adolescents, Han falls in love with Master Wu. Although their class differences force her to internalize her passion, she vehemently resists the assaults and presumptions of other suitors, remarking to herself that she "would but be a plant" if only the young master would deign to "water...
Food is not a topic generally accepted on serious editorial pages. It is shunted aside for domestic crisis and political intrigue, pushed to the back of Sunday magazines and relegated to Wednesday supplements. Men of power and women of means do not deign to discuss the particulars of a succulent piece of quail or the lightness of a perfectly-cooked souffle, preferring instead to jabber about the stock market or their pet poodles. They do not understand the obsession of the "foodie," the person for whom the best of life can be summed up in one divine meal...
...giant leap. For the peace process, not quite a small step. Before his election as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu had sworn he would never deign to meet Yasser Arafat, a man he considered little more than a terrorist. Last week, however, Netanyahu was finally nudged into a handshake with the Palestinian leader. It was an enormous psychological hurdle for the Israeli leader. His Palestinian partners, though, felt as if they were beginning a relationship from scratch...
...begins with her eyesight, which is myopic at best. She finds, to her horror, that the Nautilus machines are brown. An outrage even if it weren't true, which it isn't! The machines are clearly black, though I'm sure she would never deign to get close enough to them either to use them or to study their pigmentation. She finds newspapers near the stairmasters and stationary bikes, and as if that weren't the last straw, she finds no treadmills to set trash down next to. Although, as she says (and I believe her) health clubs across...