Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearby Tombstone. Tombstone had been around since 1877, when the discovery of silver deposits rushed it into being. Like so many other by now familiar Western mining towns, it had a brief population explosion, a flirt with naughty notoriety (in 1880 a good-hearted young local attorney made note of the fast life in the dance halls, saloons and casinos, then appended a letter home: "Still there is hope, for I know of two Bibles in town"), and finally fell into desuetude, having little more purpose in the world than grist for the mills of pulp- fiction writers. It clung...
...Editor's Note: The column "Illiberal Liberals" was a signed piece by a Crimson staff writer and not, as this letter seems to imply, a position of the entire Crimson staff...
...jilted lover ("Everyone tells me I'll get over it . . . but how could they ever begin to know how much I loved you?"), a modified zinger to get a friend to back off ("I want to please you, but first I have to please myself"), and a cryptic note aimed at intimates who apparently intend to conduct the rest of their relationship over the phone ("More than anything, it's the eye contact I'll miss...
Moreover, the article's insinuation that the typical Wellesley student is an old-fashioned domestic is both insulting and erroneous. In relaying the hoop-rolling story, it is significant to note that the prophetic nature of the race has been changed. Instead of being the first to marry, the winner is now deemed as first to be president of a Fortune 500 company. I can also personally state that Weellesley students are striving for more equal give-and-take relationships with men. It is a shame that a dinner cooked once for the special occasion of a birthday was misrepresented...
...world leaders newly committed to fighting terrorism, the summit closed on the same raucous note that marred its opening: Japanese radicals seeking to sabotage the proceedings descended on subway and train stations with smoke bombs packed with firecrackers, crippling rush-hour traffic, but claiming no casualties, in a city turning weary under a welter of unprecedented security restrictions...