Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...central kitchens, pushing carts of bagels and juice for the conference through the streets of Harvard Square. I noticed the peculiar role reversal as I gave my mom instructions for setting up rooms, food and materials for the conference, in the way that I had so often heard her organize others, including my siblings and myself. She accepted this arrangement seamlessly; throughout the morning, she was eager to help yet remarkably tactful in knowing when to be just a spectator...
Nonetheless, it was and is our strategy to take advantage of every opportunity within Harvard to have my grievance heard, and to give the Harvard administration every opportunity to demonstrate its commitment to fairness...
...inside the clamorous convention hall, that's just what the executives of the best-selling splatter games were doing--especially from pesky reporters. When I asked a designer for id, which makes Doom and Quake, if he would answer a few questions, he said sure. But when he heard that they were about violence in video games, he said I'd have to talk to his boss, id president Todd Hollenshead. When I headed off to find Hollenshead, I was intercepted by a public relations official who said that nobody from id would be available. Would I like to talk...
What happened after that is less certain. The President's voice can definitely be heard on one tape shouting, "Tinkle! Tinkle!? Can't anybody around here get anything right!" It now seems clear, though, that the President was not shouting at Heather May--and definitely did not shake her, as some early reports had it. The President's remonstrance was directed at an aide only recently promoted from senior step counter to script manager...
...SARAZEN, 97, golfer and inventor of the sand wedge; in Naples, Fla. Nicknamed the "Squire" for his diminutive size and enormous panache, Sarazen won two major championships before turning 21. At the 1935 Masters, where he became the first player to win all four majors, Sarazen struck the "shot heard round the world," a 235-yarder, for a double eagle on the 15th hole. Four decades later, still sporting his trademark knickers, he punctuated his last tournament with a hole...