Word: fines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...been talking about the ideal person, and we conclude that it could only be someone who at least walks on water," said Dean of Radcliffe College Phillipa A. Bovet. Bovet said she hopes the new president will be a fine fundraiser and "someone who will be excited by the uniqueness of Radcliffe...
...Class of '88,they were asked the summer before freshman year towrite a little bit about me to help with roomingassignments. My father was the writer in thefamily, and to him fell the task of summing up myexistence in no more than one single-spacedtypewritten page. I was a fine boy, he wrote, afine boy. But though he expressed cautious faithin my adaptibility and sociability, he suggestedit might be best if I were not roomed withclassmates of conservative political orientation.That might cause problems, and problems are bestavoided...
...Moses, even (perversely) the 41 consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...
...plague -- second only, perhaps, to the black death. And he is convinced that it is an evil designed just for him. I thought so too, until recently. After a game one night, an old friend -- a salesman -- dropped by for a visit. 'How's business?' I asked. 'Fine -- for everyone but me,' he moaned. 'I don't know what's wrong. I'm working just as hard as ever but selling nothing. It's gotten so bad that I'm convinced I won't make the sale even before I walk into a buyer's office.' While he spoke...
...effective strategy. To compound the difficulties, Bush's sometimes startling deficiencies as a campaigner have emerged in some recent California performances. In a talk to a group of upwardly mobile Latino high school students, he clumsily implied that forgoing college and settling for blue- collar jobs was fine. Said Bush: "We need the people who do the hard physical work in our society...