Word: fellows
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...very scholarly gentleman," said friend and fellow alumnus Frank H. Baumgardner Jr., who graduated from Harvard Business School in 1932. Baumgardner and Chasteney were neighbors in Tucson, Ariz...
During the news conference, Weld sharply attacked U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, a fellow Republican, for using "ideological extortion" to block his nomination as ambassador to Mexico...
Back then it took Hollywood a while to realize what kind of acting Stewart was capable of. MGM director W.S. Van Dyke II pegged him as "unusually usual." To the brass at Metro, who signed Stewart in 1935, the label meant he was a sensitive fellow with zero sex appeal--not the stuff of celebrity. So he was made to sob through After the Thin Man (pssst: he dunnit), shuffle through Born to Dance (he wasn't), swivel on skates in Ice Follies...
...swollen, discolored result means that the chairman is hard-pressed to fight departmental budget wars with dignity. He has an unsatisfactory negotiation with the campus executive officer, a lizard whose "carefully calculated sincerity is almost indistinguishable from the real thing." This fellow, of course, is bent on downsizing what once was called the liberal arts. Devereaux rebels, and with TV cameras churning (dignitaries are cutting the ribbon for a grand new engineering complex), he grabs a goose from the campus pond and threatens to kill it and another like it every day until the English department gets its funding...
Epluribus unum, one nation out of many individuals, the status we enjoy as an economic powerhouse, stems, so the American lore goes, from a firm commitment to personal gain blinds us from seeing a responsiblity to our fellow citizens and, through the state, to ourselves. As Harvard president emeritus Derek C. Bok writes in his most recent book, The State of the Nation, "[T]he United States is constantly at risk of having its people regard their government merely as a service which they purchase with their taxes and which they are entitled to complain about loudly when it does...