Word: met
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these two increasingly venerable and vulnerable units met in semi-serious liquid combat yesterday on the Charles to determine bragging rights for the Harvard crews...
...contrary to your correspondent's assertions, the Prime Minister did not take a day off from his governmental duties shortly before the Haifa summit with President Sadat; he was not driven to a "secluded laboratory" or to any other location for a physical checkup, and he has never met with a team of "three non-Israeli neurological experts." He could, therefore, never have been examined by them. In particular, the Prime Minister never met with a Dr. Jack Fein. Hence, no such team could have given any medical advice to the Prime Minister...
...union met yesterday to plan further meetings to discuss the upcoming negotiations...
...write a whole book under his "supervision" to explicate Ulysses. Barth demands that Joycean parallel. You could spend a month, a year, maybe a life detecting patterns within patterns in Ulysses; at the end you might look back and wonder why you bothered, but at least you'd have met thousands of smart people along the way. You can spend the same time with Letters and find equally pleasing patterns, but then look over your shoulder and your only company's the reeling silence...
Nathan--Alexander Portnoy disguised by a U. of Chicago education--arrives at the New England home of his aging mentor, newly popular short story writer E.I. Lonoff, whom he has never met. Here he embarks on an intellectual journey to discover both the mystery behind Lonoff's ghost-like absence from the "real world" and the secret to Lonoff's uncanny ability to characterize the Jewish anti-hero in his stories. Along the way, Nathan encounters Hope, Lonoff's lonely, bitter and jealous wife, and the enchanting Amy Bellette, his precocious and loving student...