Word: oakes
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...should all ask ourselves quite regularly, because that way you get to do all the things you want to do before you die. My own "last day on earth" list would include an array of English delights: a pint of Harveys real ale in my village pub (the Royal Oak in Newick, East Sussex), a champagne picnic at Lord's Cricket Ground in London during a test match, an hour spent staring wistfully at the goalmouth in Arsenal's new Emirates Stadium, lunch at the Ivy, dinner at Le Caprice, and a night in the penthouse suite of somewhere historic...
This is not the Texas of the American imagination. Or is it? Ensorcelled by strivers and status, Dallas has always tried hard to be sophisticated. And the city knows a mathematical equation about American city life: urban sophistication requires gay civilization. Gays have gentrified once crumbling neighborhoods like Oak Lawn in Dallas; many gays have relocated to the city to work at companies like American Airlines that have a significant gay customer base...
...Harvard girls reported hooking up with a member of the Oak Club. Combined, the members of the Oak Club claim they have hooked up with 54% of Harvard girls...
Scheduled to be held May 26-27, the NCAA Championships will take place at Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge, Tenn...
...irony is that these fine class distinctions are either invisible or irrelevant to the outside world. The difference between a Harvard student from Greenwich and one from North Dakota is lost on the average American. Both are equally likely to be sipping fine scotch in oak-paneled clubrooms, sharing their contempt for the vulgar masses...