Word: leafed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...habits die hard--especially at Harvard. Last month's minor furor surrounding changes in control of the Adams House "Oak Leaf," the weekly house newsletter, proves it. Some went ballistic, others were happy and a third group--maybe a majority--didn't really care. Still, Adamsians' reactions are a gentle sign that the non-ordered-choice lottery system has failed its mission and that the College should move toward full randomization...
Until last month, residents of Adams House trudged into the dining hall every Friday morning expecting to find a snide, wryly offensive, humorous-but-hurtful "Oak Leaf" on a table next to ID checker Jane's desk. Handwritten by semi-anonymous editors, the comments on the back of the "Oak Leaf" in its classic form variously taunted, sent up, amused and enraged house members. "In/out" lists distinguished the cool from the merely average...
...Nobel Committee considered the possibility that it might seem to be honoring an advocate of guerrilla warfare but rejected the idea. Sejersted said the panel had left "no leaf unturned" in investigating her career. He did not claim that every single action she had ever taken was pacific, but "it is our clear conclusion that her long-term goal is peace...
...could just as well put people to work weeding the median strips on the interstates or digging holes and filling them back up, but we make weapons, so when we want to employ people, we make more weapons; any other form of publicly sponsored employment is derided as "leaf raking" and possibly socialism...
Playing singles, George Bush seldom won on the tennis courts of the Houston Country Club, even back in the early '60s, when he was young and fast. He had no backhand, and his serve was worse -- "the falling leaf," he called it. But Bush compensated. He chose as his partner a lawyer from a distinguished Texas family, who just happened to have been captain of the varsity team at Princeton. With the polished James Addison Baker III at his right side, the southpaw Bush was able to emphasize his strengths: his forehand, quick reflexes at the net and steadiness...