Word: ers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...going to write a diatribe claiming that their overreaction to my stories is just an extreme example of the attitude I accused them of in the first place--an overblown chauvinism for their rather modest hometown--er, city I wanted to point out that when people publicly attack the place where I grew up, my city doesn't get up in arms about the incident. We, I planned to write, know we have a great community and therefore we aren't hypersensitive to criticism...
...Smith, who scored two goals last year, scored three, the last with just 20 seconds left in regulation, to give the Harvard men's hockey team a 6-6 victory over--er, tie with--Boston College December 21 at McHugh Forum...
...love Harvard--it's a real nice place," says Robin--er, Dodson, a 6-ft., 4-in., 205-lb., fast-moving forward...
Wilde's wordiness can easily drag, but the cast and crew have done a magnificent job of saving the play from this pitfall. Their sharp, concise style is true to Wilde's genius of conveying "What oft was said but ne'er so well expressed...
...players. The city began as a boom town and never quite lost the founding giddiness. "San Francisco was zero in 1848, a Mexican village," says Kevin Starr, author of Americans and the California Dream. "And in 1870 it was the tenth-largest city in the United States." Ne'er-do-wells found themselves making fortunes on minerals or dry goods or prostitution. Young Yankees rode into town by the thousands, looking for adventure and gold. "It was never your average American city," Starr says. "San Francisco, right from the start, was a second chance, a new beginning...