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...able to go to bed when they?re supposed to. And, apparently, there?s nothing like a day at Disney to make women of a certain age inclined to tackle a pitcher of Manhattans with the ferocity of Rodney Hamilton. Angela and my mother-in-law reported that mine were ?the best? they?d ever had; all I know is, they liked them fine. Wendy joined them for one, I had a bourbon, Luci had a beer. We were on vacation, and feeling...
...next morning, we were called to line up as replacements for a company of soldiers that had largely been wiped out the day before. Someone hollered out three names, including mine, to stay behind. The colonel in charge, who had heard me play, wanted me to form a band that would play for the men returning from the front. Called the Wolf Pack Band, we would play mostly swing tunes. We probably entertained more frontline troops than any other military band...
...shouted words of encouragement. “But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I’m happy, tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.” The audience erupted into applause as thunder rumbled in the distance...
...begin writing until late in her college career. “I was reluctant to start writing in college because it was my dad’s thing,” she explains, adding that his style “is very different than mine...
...trend has caught on at Harvard as well. Conor Quinn, a linguistics grad student, describes Urban Dictionary as a “sociolinguistic gold mine,” adding that the site is “an interesting reflection of people’s attitudes towards language. It’s not just about the definitions, but also how people go about presenting them...