Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only assume that none of the students interviewed about drinking were employed. For those of us who are, we have more realistic worries about rent, tuition and so on. If I were an employer looking for fresh talent, I would take a dim view of the graduating students if they had to drink to face up to their problems...
There were fresh attempts to reach the ambassador and a report that helicopters were on the way to rescue us from the roof. I was trying to listen for the helicopters when Public Affairs Officer James Thurber reached for my notebook and pen. When he handed it back, it contained this note: "3:35 Marine died." Tears started to my eyes. Thurber had his fingers to his lips. "Nobody knows," he whispered. It was an emotional piece of information the room did not need...
With the Marines standing guard over the hatch, two groups of women went out onto the roof, then some men, then some more women. A burst of fresh air suddenly hit me; very cold, very fresh. There was a strange glow around the edges of the roof from the fire that was consuming the building beneath us. The Marines warned us in whispers: "Stay down! Stay down!" They could not be sure there were not still rioters somewhere on the roof...
John Silber used this talent for intimidation when he was a philosophy professor at the University of Texas, fresh from Yale graduate school. He taught by the Socratic method and reportedly frightened some students to tears--all in the pursuit of educational excellence...
...attempted to explain why Clover killed herself. Adams never writes about his wife in his autobiography. From outward appearances, theirs was a childless union of matched temperaments enjoying similar tastes, opinions and well-bred friends in Boston, Washington and London. Friedrich fills that gap with a fresh supply of letters, observations and a perceptive linkage of occurrences that could have turned Clover's basic melancholia into self-destruction...