Word: recollecting
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Gibson doesn't recollect coming to Harvard with rigid preconceptions of what students here would be like, and after meeting a great many of them she doesn't feel that there is an archetypal Harvard student...
...every possible variation of light, laboring to divide nuances into further nuances and stabilize their intervals with the devotion of a particle physicist: the poplars, the haystacks, the rose-twined tunnel of the arbor leading to his house, the water. To reproduce their subtleties is impossible; to recollect the differences of tone between one painting and another, apparently identical, defeats the most trained visual memory. But the show's organizers, Art Historians Charles Moffett of the Met and James N. Wood of the St. Louis Art Museum, have disclosed the minute differences in an exemplary way: the sight...
Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said yesterday he does not recollect any references in Gordon's first letter to the possibility of Gordon severing financial ties to the University. But Gordon's dissatisfaction is worrisome to University officials who solicit contributions from alumni...
...remember, I can't recall.' " Ben-Veniste then cited numerous "I don't recall" answers in Haldeman's subsequent grand-jury testimony. Inadvertently dramatizing the prosecutor's point, Haldeman in just one hour responded with "I don't recollect" no fewer than 18 times to Ben-Veniste's questions. Despite his forgetfulness, Haldeman conceded that he did have a reputation as a detail man in the White House, and had even approved a $25-a-month raise for a Nixon gardener at San Clemente...
...middle of a period in which Nixon and his top aides were concocting "scenarios" to isolate the President from Watergate, he told Dean: "John, tell the truth. That is the thing I've told everybody around here." A day later, the President and Haldeman were trying to recollect what happened when Dean told Nixon that Hunt was demanding hush money...