Word: profferred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same guys whose television I hijacked every week last year would proffer the suggestion that my problem stems from having an extreme Scully-complex. They've concluded that I kind of look like her (debatable), so I must actually want to be her. I disagree wholeheartedly, though I must admit that it is nice to see someone else who's as short as I am kicking ass on a weekly basis. And how much fun would it be to get to carry a gun and flash that FBI badge all the time...
Several victims have requested that automatic locks be installed in dormitory doors. One first-year explained that she would rather be locked out of her room than "risk having [her] door open to the world." But if she really fears the world will tramp through her unlocked door, we proffer a simple piece of advice: Be a little bit more compulsive about locking the door when leaving the room...
...stereotypes that young students are not concerned with what is right and just." Students have organized and participated in rallies and campaigns to eradicate poverty wages at Harvard because, according to the Harvard Living Wage Campaign web site, "you can't eat prestige." But even if it can't proffer the nourishment that a living wage could, it still never hurts to have prestige on your side...
Greenblatt claims to be too new in town to be down on this one, but he does proffer lavish kudos to the student-run Hyperion Theatre Company for their rendition of Hamlet. "It was brilliant and rivaled the marvelous production I saw several years at the ART [American Repertory Theatre]," quoth the prof...
...five major-network political talk shows. "I don't plan to be ubiquitous very long," he says. So why does he hang around Larry King's studios one day to make faces at the guests? Gnashing his teeth over Kenneth Starr's skeptical view of Monica's proffer, Ginsburg begins devouring a series of power meals that will keep him noshing from the Cosmos Club and Morton's in Washington to the Four Seasons in New York City...