Word: pages
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boston Globe dropped a bomb with its front-page article Friday, "Harvard heeds the call of hungry students," which announced the College's decision to create a "fourth meal" at around midnight...
...little sign at the bottom of the picture: COUNT YOUR FINGERS. Historical continuities: Brooke Astor, now 97, remembers the day when, as a little girl, she shook the hand of Henry Adams. I recall the day when I was a child working for the summer as a Senate page and the aged Herbert Hoover visited the Senate chamber, not a celebrity so much as a curiosity. He looked like a Rotarian Santa Claus. After the Senators and pages all shook his hand--a dry hand, soft and bony at the same time, like grasping a small, fragile bird--another page...
...When I left the Middle East, I got on the T by myself and arrived back at the Yard around 1 a.m. I had to write a five-page series of lies by the next morning for Expos; I'm two weeks behind reading for my other classes; I spend five hours each week cleaning toilets for the dorm crew...
...consider everyone not on the same page as a lost cause," he said...
There's no point trying to connect the dots, because they're all over the page. Radar data released by the NTSB late Wednesday showed that EgyptAir Flight 990 plunged precipitously at nearly the speed of sound for 16,000 feet, but then climbed about a mile - and possibly began breaking up in midair - before falling into the ocean. That might suggest a last-ditch attempt by the crew to gain control of the stricken craft, which could have broken up under structural stress if the pilot had attempted to pull too quickly out of a 700-mph dive...