Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what he hoped would be quadrennial spectacles. He personally wrote the invitations for those first Games and even helped design the medals. What thanks did he get? Well, as his wife said after the first successful modern Olympics, in Athens, "Why was it that not one time did they mention your name...
Once the pro side has flipped this card, the opposition responds by feigning horror and replying that allowing criminals to have, say, five appeals rather than 12 would completely eliminate the constitutionality of our justice system. Usually left to the side is any mention of the qualitative, if not quantitative, difference between spending money to execute a criminal and spending money to keep the criminal alive...
...joke about Julie Andrews declining a Tony nomination ended with Rosie claiming she'd turn down the Nobel Peace Prize. That's the sort of one-liner that people who have never even appeared on Star Search have been using around the water cooler for weeks (not to mention the fact that it was the conceit of a humor column in the New Yorker almost a month ago). And what might the punch line be of a joke that begins, "Archaeologists in Los Angeles are excavating a red-light district to see how prostitutes lived at the turn...
...hope that the Harvard Commencement crowd was as enthusiastic as the Amherst Reunion crowd in giving all due recognition to Hal Varmus for his achievements and his leadership, not to mention his ability to explain complex scientific principles to the less-conversant, which apparently includes the Crimson editorial staff. --James W. Greene Amherst Class...
...sang the praises of this local delicacy, talking about it's unique flavor and texture. Not only that, I promised, it was a great occasion to meet everyone and really feel a part of the town. Never having attended the Rocky Mountain Oyster Feed (did I mention it was the World's Largest?), I actually had no idea what I was talking about. However, a Harvard education has many side benefits, and knowing very little about the topic at hand did not prevent me from speaking knowledgeably about it. The snob agreed to go, and my status as a resident...