Word: overnighting
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...bring a sleeping bag for all the overnight guests, random prefrosh, guests of your roommate, visiting friends from other colleges...
...least if my beliefs were in question, Imight have found solace in the company of friends.But friends are not made overnight, and mine, forthe first time in my life, were exclusively male.We were all transfers, and we all lived in NorthHouse; it was inevitable that we all fell into thesame social group. In a way, it seemed we werefriends by default. The lack of congenial society,as it turned out, was not to be solved by tryingto meet people in the house. At least, not for me.The atmosphere at North simply did not suit me; itwas a quiet and studious...
...Almost overnight those two words became television's first enduring sound bite. For decades, they have been used, over and over and over again, to describe what Americans find when they come home after work in the evenings and turn on their television sets, what our children find there after school or on Saturday morning. "Vast wasteland" appears in newspaper headlines, in book titles, in magazine articles, in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, even as the answer to a Trivial Pursuit question...
...looks like he was fair in bringing this to a vote, and he's engineered it so there's no chance Foster can succeed." Knowing the doctor would likely fall short, Dole is allowing supporters a scant 24 hours to regroup before a second and final vote Thursday. Overnight, Tumulty reports, Democratic lobbying will target four Republican senators, three of whom must change their minds if the Senate is to reach a decision on Foster: John Warner of Virginia, Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Ted Stevens of Alaska and Mark Hatfield of Oregon. None, she says, is expected to budge...
...children. Women who kill an abusive spouse almost never receive the death penalty. But Haney's defense was not all it might have been: one of her attorneys, for instance, came to court so drunk that the judge halted the proceedings and sent the man to jail overnight. When the trial resumed the next day, Haney was convicted and sentenced...