Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Listening to Deborah Meier and her fellow educators allowed me to look at the utopian experience that is the center of our course creating schools," he said...
Sophomore Laura Winthrop was the top Harvard rider with a first and a second place finish. Following closely was fellow sophomore Jaylaan Ahmad-Llewelyn who nabbed a second-place ribbon...
...year-old idles at school and works nights as a dishwasher in a disco. But Eddie, who believes "everyone's blessed with one special thing," is opulently endowed "down there in the Mr. Torpedo area," as an admirer says. At any other time in history, that would win a fellow not much more than respect in the barracks shower. But this is the 1970s, and porno films are big business. Folks looking at Eddie's endowment gawk as if it were the Washington Monument. He is pornography's future: the Holy Groin. Those 13 inches in his pants will make...
Other epithets, many not so complimentary, play on proper names. To Hoover is to inhale or consume greedily; Ike is an uncouth fellow; LBJ, the military's Long Binh jail in Vietnam; Jerusalem Slim, the radical syndicalists' derisive name for Jesus; Oscar, an unpleasant or foolish man. Joe gets more than three pages of entries, among them Joe Lunchpail, an ordinary working man, and Joe Sad, black English for a friendless or unpopular man. John Wayne wins nine citations. To John-Wayne is to attack with great force; a John Wayne cookie is a military field-ration biscuit...
...traveled too far, read too many books, heard too many semitruths and beguiling lies from too many plausible liars and improbable truth tellers. He also lived through about 25 years of his own life doing all this, so that the Shoumatoff who finished the book is not the same fellow who started it. (He admits to beginning as a young semi-mystic in search of the Other, and to becoming a middleaged householder wistfully attempting golf...