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Word: guys (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compound of choice around here is diversity, and it's everywhere. Harvard doesn't take a new-math approach to its primary lesson: you learn because you have to learn. When your lab partner is a water-skiing champion, and the guy you eat lunch with happens to be the son of a former governor of some western state, and when things like this happen all the time, you cannot help but learn to accomodate diversity. Fifteen minutes ago I learned that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song. Did you know that Mel Torme wrote The Christmas Song? Broadening like...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Ah, Diversity | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...Yard this time of year, with the wind nipping at my neck, the weather cold but not too cold, the air filled with anticipation of the holidays and the New Year. People really do seem nicer this time of year, I think. Then I notice that the guy outside the Coop collecting Christmas money ostensibly for the Salvation Army looks remarkably like the wheelchair basketball guy done up in a Santa Claus outfit...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: He Just Did It | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...when you're dealing with broken things, you're also dealing in funny stories about how people broke their things. Like? "Some guy came in with a broken watch. Said he'd put it through the washer and dryer...

Author: By Paul R. Simms, | Title: Almost Quitting Time | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

Harvard Basketball Coach Pete Roby is a really nice guy, but he sure has a funny way of showing it to his players...

Author: By Casey J. Lartigue, | Title: Cagers Meet the Holy and the Hellish | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

...Goes' Speech: This speech is given by a coach who is favored to win and wins big. This guy knows his team is good, but must restrain himself from saying just how good. Often this coach will lay credit for his team's victory on the general state of affairs, as in, "It's just been one of those years...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Post-Game Speech | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

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