Word: poring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton's political strategy is changing, his insatiable personality is not. He will always pore over the Agriculture Department's "acreage planted" reports, which hit his desk on Friday evenings. He will always resist trips to Camp David, because it is even more isolated than the White House. And he will always stay up late, even if he has to take an afternoon nap to do so. Last Tuesday, as Clinton came downstairs from the private residence, dressed and ready for his speech, aides noticed that the final draft was wrapped inside a crossword puzzle from the morning paper. Clutching...
...have sent a message: If you are going to do anything unethical or illegal, just don't write it down. One of the charms of diaries is that ideally, they can reveal deeply private information about a human being that could never be discovered any other way. Historians constantly pore over every word and nuance of these intimate journals of historical figures. To take a long-term view, future generations would suffer tremendously if all this generation left them were musty diaries stocked with lies...
...chairs, the walls, the gates, even imprinted on the first years' underwear. But for nearly 90 days I have asked for the unexpurgated, non-rhetorical truth in this coup d'etat and have received little more than the stains on the underwear. My eyes are open. With every pore of my being I am visual. My voice may be diminished by the resounding bang of authority, but I call now upon the administration of this great university and upon every person who is committed to the advancement of education in the arts within this institution, regardless of whom their audience...
Widener Library:1. Mammoth library built in memory of a Titanic drowning victim. 2. where students go to pore over books and sometimes, each other...
...bring a camera. Inevitably, it will be buried under piles of unwashed laundry in the bottom of your closet when prime Kodak moments arise, but any photos are fun to pore through later...