Word: nosed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While acknowledging the profound benefits that come from volunteering, many student activists say that doing community service is much like treating a runny nose without trying to find a cure for the cold...
While acknowledging the profound benefits thatcome from volunteering, many student activists saythat doing community service is much like treatinga runny nose without trying to find a cure for thecold...
...Cambridge resident reported that he was confronted by a suspect known to him while he was standing at the intersection of JFK and Mt. Auburn Streets. The suspect allegedly kicked the victim in the legs and the rear and punched him in the nose...
Saddam Hussein is simple. Villains are often simple. Alone in the desert, thumbing his nose at the world. Armed, dangerous, easy to hate. But so hard to catch. Why? In the westerns, the hero rode alone. The villains always had a gang. Think Gary Cooper. High Noon (1952). The hero always won. In international politics, though, that elegance disappears. Too many cooks? Try too many allies. The common enemy suddenly gets complicated. The Third Man (1949) knows this. A film noir with real profundity, the movie is home to one of moviedom's great villains: Harry Lime. Yet Orson Welles...
...down and something about the wait snapped me into a paranoid inner dialogue. "The MTV producers probably hope you'll be their fall guy," I thought, "the overly studious Ivy League student who doesn't win because he can't get his nose out of the books long enough to know jack about pop culture. Most viewers would probably get a kick out of seeing a Harvard guy wearing the dunce cap. Sure, maybe you think you're a TV junkie, but anything you screw up'll look like cluelessness. A hundred bucks says they play the `Harvard Guilt' card...