Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appalled by the content of the poster," he said, denouncing the flier "racist and homophobic in its nature...
...little more than $100,000. But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate. Jack Brooks, an ex-Marine who chomped on a cigar in his seat as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee long after the ashtrays were removed, could be a poster child for term limits. More liberal than his east Texas constituents on issues like civil rights, he had hung tenaciously to office, power, perks and pork by fiercely protecting his constituents' love of guns, rice subsidies and the death penalty. He was also good at delivering federal building projects...
Even though F. Scott was Princeton's literary poster boy, he couldn't help marveling at "Yale's hard, neat, fascinating brightness." For him, Yale "evoked the memory of a heroic team backed up against its own impassable goal in the crisp November twilight, and later, of half a dozen immaculate noblemen with opera hats and canes standing at the Manhattan Hotel bar. And tangled up with its triumphs and rewards, its struggles and glories, the vision of the inevitable, incomparable girl...
...burglar gained entry to Matthews when a student left the door open in order to hang a poster, according to Jenkins...
However, when we poster, our intent is not to recruit potential callers from the Harvard-Radcliffe community, nor do we wish to tell people how they "should" feel. The quotes which lead off each poster are not meant to declare attitudes or emotions universally shared...