Word: orientate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Before we were understaffed and overworked." Rafferty added, "and under those conditions you were lucky if you could just get the necessary things done. "Now, she said, she has more time to "really talk" with the home's 155 patients, and "orient them" to their new surroundings...
PHILADFLPHIA-Last spring, a lot of people thought this game should be played in Japan A group of American businessmen living in Tokyo offered to fly the Harvard and Penn teams to the Orient for a showdown in the Mirage Bowl. But this scheme did not appeal to the Ivy League presidents, who vetoed the idea on the grounds that it violated the schools academic principles...
...Both have at best skimmed the reading so far. Tip is spending very little time campaigning in the district, because, as one aide puts it bluntly. "He doesn't need to," LoPresti has indicated his concern about Socialist opponent William Shakalis by going on a junket to the Orient. The combined possibility of these guys losing Group I status may push 20 percent...
...Proust, Joyce, Shakespeare, Sartre, Hemingway-Hemingway, who had so enjoyed coming to Tanganyika and killing its kudu and sitting by its campfires getting drunk and pontifical-and Henry James. Who, then, Bech painfully asked, did measure up to the exacting standards that African socialism had set for literature?" The Orient brings Bech confused mash notes from South Korean schoolgirls and a beaming local poet who writes poems about "flogs." How many poems about frogs? Bech the good-will ambassador wonders through the translator: "No question
LIKE A CEDAR THAT HAS BEEN FELLED! was the banner head used by the Beirut daily L 'Orient-Le Jour in reporting the violent death at age 34 of the country's President-elect, Bashir Gemayel. The cedar is the symbol of Lebanon, especially associated with the mountains. Like the cedar, Bashir Gemayel was a product of Mount Lebanon. The cedar grows and flourishes in harsh surroundings, in unfriendly weather, and so did Bashir Gemayel. He lived in a tough and uncompromising world, reached its zenith, and was felled...