Word: gracefully
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Although public examinations no longer grace the academic year's end, today's undergraduates spend two weeks preparing for final exams and another two weeks taking them. But if you were a Harvard freshman or a sophomore in 1767, you might have a little more trouble preparing for exams than your elder classmates...
Finally, as if by some divine grace, it began to rain. The kids stopped screaming and Seaver left...
Later the Same Day, Grace Paley...
...conquer the world." The White House announcement added insult to injury for American Jews who were already offended because Reagan had vetoed a stop at the site of a concentration camp during his six- day German tour. "Visiting the gravesites of one's former enemies is an act of grace," said Nathan Perlmutter, national director of the Anti- Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. "Doing so while bypassing the gravesites of the victims of that enemy--especially so brutal an enemy--is insensitive." Charitably deflecting the blame from the President, Perlmutter said that Reagan "has been the victim...
...moment Clemente is quoting poses from Giulio Romano's illustrations to Aretino to Indian miniatures (he spends part of each year painting near Madras); the next, copying a spiral staircase out of Mario Praz's Illustrated History of Furnishing; and after that, doing a billboard-size head of Grace Jones with skulls for teeth...