Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard was the No. 4 seed (and placed in Pool A, along with No. 1 Slippery Rock and No. 8 Princeton), so that meant that the Crimson would be the proverbial guinea...
Nettles and Applewhite set up shop in Los Angeles with their cosmology of Jesus and UFOs. In the beginning, Applewhite and Nettles called their group Guinea Pig, with Nettles being "Guinea" and Applewhite being "Pig." Very soon, however, the group was called Human Individual Metamorphosis, and Applewhite was "Bo" and Nettles "Peep"--a reference to their roles as shepherds. They were then called "Him" and "Her" and finally the musical...
...precisely the path taken by Earhart. Waving breezily to reporters, Finch says she has no jitters about her 29,000 mile flight. The original Earhart flight ended in disaster after 22,000 miles when Earhart, her navigator and plane vanished over the Pacific Ocean on the way between New Guinea and Howland Island. Pratt & Whitney, which is shelling out $4.5 million to sponsor the venture, financed the restoration of Finch's plane and has also established a web site called "World Flight '97" (www.worldflight.org) that will allow school children and aviation enthusiasts to follow Finch's progress...
...Students I've talked to do not fancy themselves as guinea pigs," Feldman said...
...Leno skit in which the talk-show host goes out onto the street to test people's familiarity with Biblical trivia. A standard question in his repertoire: which of the following is not a Biblical book--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus or DeGeneres? Needless to mention, Leno's hapless guinea pig does not "choose wisely." I sometimes wonder whether Leno would not find equal ignorance were he to ask: who of the following is not a Supreme Court justice--Rehnquist, Ginsburg, Scalia or Sorvino...