Word: papered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Germans do not enjoy a reputation as fun lovers. But Die Zeit, one of the country's leading newsweeklies, recently started playing six degrees of separation with gusto. According to one social theory, everyone on the planet can be connected to anyone else in six steps. So the paper asked Salah Ben Ghaly, an Iraqi immigrant who owns a local falafel stand, to whom he would most like to be linked. Ghaly, naturally, chose MARLON BRANDO. It took some months, but Die Zeit managed to relate them. A friend of Ghaly's who lives in California works in the same...
...started construction, and one morning I'm reading the paper and I see that Lechmere is closing," Barsamian said...
When I left the paper behind (except for an occasional column) this past January, I was both happy to have stayed on board for so long and ready...
Indeed, Hawking drew a crowd because of his fame. Bound to a wheelchair for his adult life, he has overcome his handicap to become the world's foremost expert on theoretical physics. Each of his lectures took 30 hours to prepare, and he still managed to write another paper during his one-week stay at Harvard...
...illustrate her point she pulled out an exam paper from the pile she was carrying and read from it: "How are characters in TV shows different from those in novels? Well, in TV you can never see a character's back." She put the paper back into the pile, threw her arms up in the air and exclaimed: "I guess in a novel you can, I don't know...