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Word: orderlies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chicken picatta, and you're in the mood for some fresh bread. The only problem is that the wait at everyone's favorite Brattle Square pizza joint constantly hovers between 70 and 90 minutes. The outdoor folk music gets annoying, and the servers always screw up your drink order anyway...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 100 REASONS WHY HARVARD SUCKS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...should be seen not so much as a new organism but as a collection of over 70 different campus-based student groups which more or less resemble the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) of this campus. The NSLA will act as a network between these various student groups in order to ease communication and fundraising. Through this confederacy, other PSLMs around the country will be able to link their campaigns, participate in national ones, and help students start up their won PSLM-like organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Comparison Between NSLA and SDS Is Useless | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...still calls the posse comitatus. As I finish a book on this subject now, I find myself marveling at the trust contemporary undergraduates put in vague authority, at the undergraduate willingness to expect authority to by just around the corner when needed. In the absence of authority, when ordinary order goes askew, someone who plays Assassin may be good to have around. A little subtlety, a little of the raptor works wonders when no one has time to call 911, when the cell phone is out of service. More women ought to play now, lest they pay later. More...

Author: By Professor JOHN R. stilgoe, | Title: IN THE MEANTIME | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...should be seen not so much as a new organism but as a collection of over 70 different campus-based student groups which more or less resemble the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) of this campus. The NSLA will act as a network between these various student groups in order to ease communication and fundraising. Through this confederacy, other PSLMs around the country will be able to link their campaigns, participate in national ones, and help students start up their own PSLM-like organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

...impossible to categorize. The latest issue features "Supreme Court Basketball" in which cases are retold in play-by-play with (basketball) court diagrams, and "Fire: The Next Sharp Stick?" which chronicles a Neanderthal board meeting. Instead of advertisements, McSweeney's offers its tongue-in-cheek "marketplace" of mail-order items: "#89, Used Lamp Bought at the Salvation Army Outlet and Hand-Delivered to Your Home on a Sunday Afternoon When it's Raining ($55.00)," and "#14, Pages Torn from an Annotated 1904 Bible ($2.95)" seem particularly appealing...

Author: By D. M. Rosenblatt, | Title: McSWEENEY'S HITS THE STANDS | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

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