Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...your name is just as ephemeral and fleeting as catching a guard asking directions or changing clothes in the Claverly Hall foyer, as one guard happened to be doing last week. Guards have not always responded quickly to calls on their radios and have at times responded to calls meant for others. Though some sort of adjustment is predictable, the high turnover of SSI employees makes us wonder if guards will be at Harvard long enough to learn their way around...
...summer between my freshman and sophomore years of high school, I enrolled in a program at Stanford and took a class in American Government. But instead of a comprehensive course about the intricacies of our nation's bureaucracy, which was meant to gear me up for the A.P. exam, I spent three hours each morning listening to the ranting and raving of a liberal hippie from Florida. He wanted us to call him Bob. He swore by his Birkenstocks. And he thought anyone who wanted to run for the President of the United States was crazy...
Cobbling together a new TV program meant a steady grind of 18-hr. workdays as the Clark team hustled to meet Fox's demand to get the show on the air during the November ratings sweeps and before the scheduled Nov. 7 reappearance of Millionaire. Somewhere along the way, the grand prize was whittled down to $2 million...
...vogue among schoolkids. In a recent survey by Planned Parenthood, 10% of self-described virgins admitted having oral sex--some in their early teens. Peter Sheras, professor of adolescent development at the University of Virginia, says many teens have become desensitized. Oral sex "might mean what a French kiss meant to us when we were kids," he says. Teens often shrug and say that oral sex never made anyone pregnant. Parents need to remind them, though, that it can transmit dread diseases, including HIV and the papilloma virus, against which even condoms offer little protection...
...that offers a rock sandwich with a side order of kelp. Consider the swordfish: angler's prize, gourmet's delight, fisherman's livelihood. In the mid-'60s, when I was in my mid-20s, I caught a swordfish off Long Island. I wasn't trying to; it took bait meant for sharks. The fish was weirdly, atypically lethargic. It didn't struggle much, didn't leap at all, just tugged for a while, then gave...