Word: preferments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find me a 10 color pen, and I'm not even a pre-med. I now use to it write letters to friends. I own a tack hammer and nails to hang pictures on the walls, which at Harvard is punishable either by death or organic chem, whichever you prefer. As I found out a few weeks ago, though, a tack hammer and a screwdriver make a mean can-opener, which is much more fun than the traditional Swiss Army knife...
...transplant to "communist" China "to curry favor with the butchers of Beijing." This is how out there the Peninsula is, how so removed it is from the modern political scene that it cannot comprehend the fundamentally conservative policies of the United States in the 1990s. Perhaps these reactionaries would prefer to have lived during the 1960s so at least they would have had something legitimate to rail against...
That's what Kerry would prefer, but it would deny the state a race that should be the envy of voters everywhere. The Kerry-Weld battle has it all: two strong candidates, seven debates, a serious discussion of issues like taxes and crime, even an agreement by both candidates to limit campaign spending...
...women taking their place in the factories, Hollywood turned paranoid. Film noir made the black widow an embodiment of evil as seductive as she was destructive. What man wouldn't want to go to hell with Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice? What man wouldn't prefer hell to two days in a motel room with the spectacularly shrewish Ann Savage in Detour...
...study examined whether babies are born with an innate preference to certain types of music and concluded that babies prefer a consonant sound rather than a dissonant sound...