Word: gately
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hosokawa claims that he repaid the money, but critics say he kept it to fund his campaign to become governor of Kumamoto prefecture the following year. When pressed, the Prime Minister first asserted that he used the cash to purchase an apartment in Tokyo and to repair the roofed gate and plaster wall of an ancestral home. Opposition legislators charge that he bought the apartment before he received the loan. They tracked down the construction workers and determined that they charged only $67,000 for the repair -- and did the work a year after Hosokawa received the loan. Also...
...League in Review: Princeton is first out of the gate with a 4-0 start and is currently in the midst of an 8-2 run with a five-game winning streak, Its 21-9 overall mark, helped considerably by a 7-1 week, also leads the Ivies...
...that brilliant fall day when I first walked around the Yard in search of my dorm, I was struck by the beauty of the other buildings I passed. As I happened across the proud Gothic edifice with lovely, inviting stairwells close to Johnston Gate, I prayed that the name plate would say Canaday. How my heart sagged when I discerned the name "Matthews" instead...
...night with lyme ticks and the Red Baron if we didn't make the parking lot in time. As dusk settled, we stumbled into the empty parking lot and sprinted to the car. The prophet-of-doom ranger was just locking up as we screeched up to the gate. He approached us and, instead of getting mad or something, he said: "Around the next bend you'll see a deer making its way across the marsh towards the Great House." We had no time to decipher his ominous code language. Sorry, Ranger, SB `94 over...
...contraptions with names like Wonderbra and Super-Uplift that force a woman's breasts, however small, into a harness, creating cleavage of the sort enjoyed by Dolly Parton. The maker of Super-Uplift describes its product as a feat of engineering (constructed with 46 separate components and underwires, a "gate back" for anchoring, and ridged shoulder straps to prevent the "embarrassing jellies-on-a-plate look"), but it is actually a feat of marketing. Reconvincing women that the absence of breasts holds them back is as easy as forcing hemlines up or down: it is only a few fashion shows...