Word: grating
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There is a lot on the schedule,” noted Chelsea Y. Grate, a high school senior from Houston, Texas, who says she’ll most likely be moving to Cambridge in the Fall. “I just got here an hour ago, I have no idea what I want...
...side and the backstage doors on the reverse. The only downside to the set is that its sizable changes between acts required a considerable amount of time, necessitating two intermissions—during which the production’s loop of piped-in classical music began to grate...
...Duraflame logs, and half of a box of kitchen matches. Last winter was the first time either my roommate or I had ever been able to apply skills learned as Girl Scouts, and we reveled in the opportunity. We layered kindling and balled-up sheets of newspaper on the grate in elaborate crosshatch patterns; with fire tongs, we held burning sheets of newspaper in the flue to warm it and make the chimney draw better. But our fireplace did not represent merely an opportunity to practice fire husbandry; it was also the spiritual center of our room. In November...
It’s time to leave—all this ambition is beginning to grate on me. We bid Andy goodbye and wish him good luck in his plan to scale the Catholic career ladder. “Speaking of Catholic,” he tells us, “my host said there will be a party tonight where girls dress up like Catholic schoolgirls and party like you’ve never seen.” It is now officially time to leave. We bid goodbye to Pius ’07, along with our peppy prefrosh...
...slower now. Lentz won’t volunteer much about most things in life that grate on him, but this comes of his own admission...