Word: fellow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Most of our activities there are directly funded by the government," said Economics Lecturer Donald R. Snodgrass, an HIID fellow...
...causes, Philby's legend grew to mythic proportions. Still active in the KGB, where he rose to the rank of general, Philby wrote a cryptic 1968 memoir, My Silent War, and gave only a handful of interviews. Yet his life and those of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, two fellow British double agents whom he helped escape in 1951, inspired countless plays, films, novels and biographies. In spy fiction if not reality, Philby's perfidy seems to have been pivotal in a mood swing from patriotic derring-do to dour pessimism...
Until my senior year, I had no conception of what a Harvard graduation involved. I could envision only receiving my long-awaited diploma in an atmosphere of jubilant feeling toward my school and fellow classmates. The spirit of the tradition becomes clouded when I consider the difficulty that many of my peers and their families face in funding a Harvard graduation. After all, graduating from this college should be a blessing, not a burden...
...fact, Hitech is so smart it disdains playing its fellow computers. Since 1986, Hitech has been competing on the regular chess circuit, matching wits only with humans. It has a solid master's rating of 2376, well behind former World Chess Champion Mikhail Tal, the top-ranked player in this tournament, with a 2700 rating, but Hitech is a dangerous enough competitor to have caused a minor furor last August by scoring a first-place finish in the Pennsylvania State Chess Championship. It is the 22nd-ranked player in the National Open...
...Several fellow astrologers are decidedly cool toward Quigley. Marion D. March, who prepares charts for many Hollywood stars, dismisses her as a "media astrologer" because of her many TV appearances. Others in the astrological community grouse that Quigley is too aloof. But Jayj Jacobs, another San Francisco practitioner, asks, "If she's doing astrology for the Reagans, what does she need with the rest of the community...