Word: prim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lamont, excuses for forgotten IDs had better be good, says Nick Prim. "I tell them, 'Give me an original reason. I want something creative...
...student then comes up with "I was at some party and I got so jammed I don't know where I left it." Or, "I left it at my mother's house during vacation. And that's in Thames, England," Prim laughs, shaking his head...
Book checkers themselves "come in all flavors and intensities," Prim says. The guards hail from a variety of backgrounds: editors, psychologists, Ph.D's, writers and painters have all staffed the entrances of Harvard's libraries, according to Muir...
...Gaetano) Talese was born and raised in Ocean City, N.J., a seaside resort founded by teetotaling Methodist ministers who sought a prim and sober alternative to glitzy Atlantic City nearby. Growing up "olive-skinned in a freckle-faced town," young Gay felt himself an alien in Ocean City -- the butt, at parochial school, of ethnic slurs by Irish-American classmates whose brothers served with the American forces liberating Italy during World War II. He even felt somewhat of a foreigner in his own family. His father Joseph, a workaholic tailor and dry cleaner, was strict, austerely religious, often remote...
...rounds up the usual suspects: John Kennedy and his girlfriends, Franklin Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer, Dwight Eisenhower and Kay Summersby, Gary Hart and Donna Rice. The story is still basically junk, a little sugar rush of news. But somehow the winter of 1992 feels a bit late for the prim old American Kabuki: the mayor caught in the whorehouse, the schoolmarm shaking her finger...