Word: orderers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is no need to return to a 1950s-style classroom in order to improve Americans' familiarity with the world outside their borders. Moral values, a la Alan Bloom and former Education Secretary William J. Bennett, are not the prescription to the country's educational woes...
...begins to smell a little like a loyaltyoath, and that bothers me," Harvard's Miller said.He noted that federal law already requires allcolleges and universities to have a comprehensivedrug policy in place in order to receive federalfunds...
WHAT impressed us most about the food at Frank's was the size. Of course, the dogs are plump, and they appear mountainous when slathered with the aforementioned condiments. But the "handful of fries" that accompanies each wiener is more like a plateful. If you order them a la carte, the "small" fries are enough for a meal, and the large fries, according to the counter help, are the equivalent of eight potatoes. We hate to think how many cattle gave their lives for Frank's franks. Even the drinks are huge; a "large" is about a liter...
...London: "Cher ami -- Can you arrange, some day next week -- before Wednesday -- to bring, or send, me such fragments of correspondence as still exist?" The writer continues, "In one sense, as I told you, I am indifferent to the fate of this literature. In another sense, my love of order makes me resent the way in which inanimate things survive their uses!" Edith Wharton, then 47, was referring to her love letters in the possession of Morton Fullerton, a charming rotter who alternately pursued and ignored her. She was also, and none too subtly, trying to make her unpredictable suitor...
...given to meditation, to reading books for their own sake, to what he dismisses as "introspection." His wife says, "I have never seen him read a novel, unless you count Nick Gage's Eleni as a novel." The Army was something to be done, once, like the marathon, in order for Michael to return to his real business...