Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first mention of this Culture, I cowered. With visions of 200 exchanges of "hello-my-name-is-where-do-you-go-to-school-what's-your-major-what's-your-sign," I decided I'd be the exception to the rule. I would work eight hours a day in my office with three other interns--and head home immediately afterwards...
...steamy darkness of a summer night on the Persian Gulf, Staff Sergeant Alfredo Guerrero was making the rounds of the observation posts under his command. He stepped onto the roof of one of the apartment buildings at the Khobar Towers near Dhahran and said hello to the two other members of the U.S. Air Force security police posted there. Then something caught his eye. Below he saw a white Chevrolet Caprice pulling into a public parking lot adjacent to the compound. Nothing odd about that, but the car was being followed closely by a large tanker truck...
...library card tomorrow. Be rude to the man checking out your videos at the convenience store, and you'll find out at the next city council meeting he's deciding whether or not you can build a new store. Being rude to anyone (and that includes not saying hello when you see them on the street) guarantees that you will run into them three more times that week...
...There are other Harvard administrators [who have been around as long as my father], but if a Harvard alumnus sees him they'll come and say hello. He can connect them and he can remember them," says Josiah. "It has happened on the top of the Alps, and it happens all the time in London...
...beginning in the third trimester of pregnancy. Bowling Park's Michael Bailey, a soft-spoken Mister Rogers type, hands out flyers in food-stamp lines to encourage new mothers to sign up. Each day he drives out to visit one of the 35 families who have joined the program. "Hello, teacher!" shrieks Tonesha Sims, 2 1/2, running out of her house to hug him on a recent morning. Bailey spends an hour reviewing colors and numbers with the pigtailed toddler. As Bailey leaves, Tonesha begs, "Teacher, can I play with you next week?" Lottie Holloman, 68, her great-grandmother...