Word: fond
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Juniors in Winthrop House have no conception of what a common room is, several students in Dunster call seminar rooms with no toilets "home," and seniors are developing fond sardine memories to take with them upon graduation from Lowell House. Harvard's houses are packed to the gills...
...necessarily. Yes, Miyazawa is extraordinarily fond of America and has an elegant command of English. But he is also a tough negotiator with firmly held convictions. He speaks his mind. Unlike many of his less sophisticated predecessors, he will not bow silently to pressure from Washington. "He is ready to be critical of unreasonable demands," says Seizaburo Sato, a political scientist at the University of Tokyo. As Trade Minister in 1970, Miyazawa broke off talks over a textile agreement because he felt the U.S. was demanding too much. His successor completed the deal -- by giving Washington exactly what it wanted...
...least 2330 B.C. and is depicted in a wall painting in an Egyptian tomb. It's a familiar theme. Egyptology figures in the credentials of a number of alternative remedies, as do claims that the British royal family are loyal patients. (The royals are said to be particularly fond of homeopathy, a system that treats diseases by administering tiny doses of the substances that might normally cause the same symptoms as the ailment.) "We're not just another New Age fairy tale" is also much heard. So says Marcel Lavabre, president of the 200-member American Aromatherapy Association, based...
...Southern tradition of Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell, earned high praise for a couple of books of short stories, Facing the Music and Big Bad Love, and a novel, Dirty Work. The new novel is clear, simple and powerful, and it is great, rowdy fun to read. Brown balances his fond but unsentimental portrait of Joe Ransom with stinging | sketches of a weed-tough young white-trash boy named Gary, who tags after Joe, and of Gary's evil father, a human scorpion named Wade. If anyone doubted it, Flem Snopes lives...
Gray does escape to, of all places, Los Angeles. And Gray is near his wittiest when he rails sarcastically against the city. He is inspired by the view of distant hills, "that you can see on the seven clear days every year." Gray also becomes fond of "idea lunches," where producers want him to join them to "see if he has any ideas...