Word: hectors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Capitol Hill luncheon addressed by John Sununu, 79-year-old lawyer Harry Rosenfield had trouble getting to his feet to hector the chief of staff about Dan Quayle's fitness to be President. When Rosenfield was done, Sununu retorted, "If Quayle does ascend to the presidency, you can be sure he won't fall out of his chair...
...have always been a multiethnic country. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, who came from France in the 18th century, marveled at the astonishing diversity of the settlers -- "a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans and Swedes . . . this promiscuous breed." He propounded a famous question: "What then is the American, this new man?" And he gave a famous answer: "Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men." E pluribus unum...
This new journal, also of a voyage to the New World ("Mr. Heartbreak" is J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, author in 1782 of Letters from an American Farmer), is about two-fifths aqueous, which is just enough. Raban sets out from Liverpool in a giant container ship, discovers that the ocean is even larger -- good storm action here -- and then burrows for several weeks each in Manhattan, a small and sleepy Alabama burg called Guntersville and our last frontier, Seattle...
...nation...Awarded Player of the Year, All-Ivy, and All-American status by Intercollegiate Squash Association...Suffered one defeat to Sunhil Desai, brother of Harvard racquetwoman Vanya Desai, during regular season matches. His only other defeat was to reigning two-year United States Squash and Raquet Association champion, Hector Barrigan of Mexico. Their five-game, two-and-a-half hour match was unofficially recorded as the longest match in U.S.S.R.A. history...
...more important now because the deadline is approaching. It makes the exams look trivial," said Hector R. Rocha '94, who has a brother stationed in Saudi Arabia. "It puts it in perspective. These things are stupid compared to that...