Word: overnighting
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...arbiters of culture as The New York Times Magazine, women like that girl in my mom’s freshman hall have become the norm. And while my mother says this girl’s sexual self-expression was a kind of political project, women at Harvard today entertain overnight guests with different intentions...
Vladi, a senior at the University of Florida, was lounging around at his Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house when he remembered the laundry he had left in the Laundromat overnight. His forgetfulness was about to land him a job. When he grabbed his clothes from the dryer top, the first thing he noticed among his socks and boxers was a black thong. "I was like, 'Well, this isn't my size!'" says Vladi, 22. Then he read the white lettering on the front: DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO BE THE NEXT AXE AMBASSADOR? "I said...
...influential men of the Great Central West, I am informed, introduced ex-governor McKelvie [of Nebraska] as the next president. Doesn't it seem reasonable to surmise from these circumstances that have arisen during the past few months - McKelvie's conference with the President at Washington; the first overnight guest of the President at his summer home; the recipient of the only visit made by the President on a private individual while at his summer home; and, as you say, the spokesman of the President in regard to the Farm legislature and one who is apparently pleasing to the financial...
...ludicrous. The educational sectors in those countries face enormous difficulties." This rings true. For the past few months, there have been reports of skilled-labor shortages in the most economically advanced areas of China. Second, free traders argue that even if China and India become advanced economies almost overnight, they will look just like Germany and Japan. And nobody--well, nobody you would trust--argues that trade between rich economies doesn't benefit everyone...
...death toll from Sunday's tsunamis that roared across the Indian Ocean passed 70,000 overnight Tuesday. The surging waters targeted wealthy Western tourists at Thai resorts as viciously as it targeted poor fisher-folk of the eastern Indian coastline, affected both Muslim separatists in Indonesia's Aceh province and the army sent to quell their rebellion, buffeted those parts of Sri Lanka controlled by the government and those in the hands of the Tamil rebels...