Word: papering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Harvard men's swimming team will be anxiously checking under the tree at Blodgett Pool Christmas morning, shaking the boxes and peeking under the wrapping paper of every gift that lies there...
...unfair definition of intelligence seems to be partly rooted in childhood insecurities. It is difficult to forget those early years of school when the teacher passed back a corrected quiz and we students fidgeted nervously, anxious over whether we got a smiley-face sticker on the top of our paper. Then some students needed to reassure themselves that they had done well by asserting that someone else had done worse. Then the mean-spiritedness of childhood emerged, and words like "stupid" and "dummy" entered children's vocabularies. These insecurities followed us to adulthood, and our biases about intelligence remain...
...government newspaper Izvestia, in a front-page article from New York yesterday, said the U.S. administration was preparing intensively for the meeting with Gorbachev. "There is a basis to suppose that the administration will not only listen but propose something in return," the paper said...
...DRAWINGS OF RICHARD DIEBENKORN, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. A full-scale survey of the West Coast painter's works on paper, offering a rich view of his abstract and representational periods. Through...
...decorating tends to rainbows, balloons and sentimental posters -- A BABY IS GOD'S WAY OF SAYING THE WORLD SHOULD GO ON. (No irony intended there.) They keep a diary for each child: "He can go from the living room to the kitchen in ten seconds at a crawl . . . Eating paper is his favorite pastime...