Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Renaissance, things were running according to form. Despite temperatures in the 30s, many participants dutifully jogged the beach before their 8 a.m. seminar. Two (unacquainted) participants compared the panels to "interactive C-SPAN" and "watching MacNeil/Lehrer from 8 in the morning till 10 at night." And neither remark was meant as an insult...
...pressure he reverted to the pompous thug of late-night cable, the backbencher lobbing grenades on C-SPAN about sick Democrats who were enemies of normal Americans. He was new on the job. And the job, as he reshaped it, was new too. He didn't realize his every remark would now be measured for maturity, not ferocity. He didn't realize that once a battle is won, it's time to move graciously to the peace table. "I keep forgetting that all the ground rules have changed,'' he told Time last week. "I have consistently, all year, said things...
...That remark is absolutely offensive and repulsive, and we're ashamed he's a professor here," Dennis K. Lin '93-'94, then co-chair of the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Students Association, said at the time...
...Such a remark had to give McCartney the cringies. He composed the group's top-selling single (Hey Jude), its most widely covered song (Yesterday) and much of its most enduring music. He was the Beatles' most versatile singer, and not just as a balladeer; his scorched-throat rendition of the raver I'm Down is a highlight of the Anthology show. Yet Paul always shivered in John's shadow. Partly it was his looks. He was cute, coquettish--almost the girl of the group--so how could he be smart? He was the favorite of the girls whose screams...
...Abraham Lincoln wrote in a letter to Albert G. Hodges, "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Lincoln was often extremely modest, but this remark was the result of more than humility. Lincoln, particularly as the Civil War stretched into its fourth year, was painfully aware of how much was beyond his control. David Herbert Donald in his biography Lincoln carefully examines the life of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in rural Kentucky through his death...