Word: marshaled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the 25 person Senior Class Committee which selects Class Day speakers extended the offer to Guinier because "she had a lot of insights to offer," said Wes M. Hill '94, a first marshal on the committee...
...presented by her father and her brother escorted her, "which is sort of how it works in the South; if you have a brother of proper social age, he presents you." Similarly family-minded, Robe had her cousin be her escort and a high school friend be her 'marshal', saying "I wanted to keep it low-key, with friends from home." And in Austin, men receive equal time with women in the social whirl. Malone notes, "All 15 of us, our escorts were chosen for us; it's sort of an honor for them...
...issue were something as concrete as budgetary problems, it could be addressed using national arguments and objective data. We who oppose the elimination of linguistics at Harvard could marshal facts, figures, tables and statistics to support our position. But we have no such luck. In fact, a member of the committee to "restructure" (read: eliminate) the Department promised me that the move has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with money...
...original audience. The paintings presuppose a knowledge of Russian society, and above all a saturation with its period propaganda, that few in the West can claim. Why did it matter for political purposes that the writer Maxim Gorky should be depicted taking lessons on the rifle range from Marshal Voroshilov, the commissar of war? It mattered because Gorky, though a literary favorite and a devoted friend of Lenin's, was opposed to shooting, and this bothered Stalin...
...state fire marshal's office disarmed both of the bombs. Police told the Globe that the explosion "would have killed anyone in the immediate vicinity...