Word: gift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...million endowment is the gift of Elisabeth A. Hobbs and Emily H. Fisher-who received master's degrees in education from the GSE in 1961-and two other anonymous women donors...
...other foot. The Americans are coming and bringing with them the attitudes of a society mired in the complacency of mass consumption. Elderly American tourists crowd the art museums looking for Diego Velazquez and Joan Miro prints to send home to the family, snapping photos ransacking gift shops along the way. At night, everybody straggles home from the bars and discotheques, but it is the Americans who are singing...
Every year, the first-year students at Harvard Medical School (HMS) look forward to the "coating" ceremony, where the gift of white medical coats represents an invitation to join the medical community...
Readers of Deborah Eisenberg's earlier story collections, Transactions in a Foreign Currency and Under the 82nd Airborne, already know she writes like a dream, both figuratively and literally. Her gift for projecting a variety of moods and voices sets her apart from the usual, narrowly focused short-story writer...
...least seven different ones during his three-week vacation. Not since Eisenhower has a Commander been so fond of haberdashery. Thus far the White House has no gimme-cap room (Who would pay to stay there?), but if the past seven years are any indication, the best inedible gift to give Bill is a baseball cap with something manly printed on it. Above, some of the best hat moments of the Clinton presidency...