Word: riser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early riser. "Believe it or not, Idon't mind waking up early. I've found that if youdon't have to wait in line you get moreaccomplished," he says...
...Clinton confidant Harry Thomason a printout off the Internet of a New York Times story about Betty Currie's testimony. The sight of Thomason hunched over in the dim blue light with Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel, straining to read, set off a buzz among the reporters on the press riser behind them. Abruptly, Peter Jennings left. Stop the music: Clinton may be done in--and by his own secretary...
...story came to me in William Maxwell's novel So Long, See You Tomorrow. It was one of several works of fiction I read on a week's vacation in a place where the newspaper arrived a day late and never before 9 a.m. I am an early riser, so the first two or three hours of my vacation mornings were spent getting the news from the likes of Maxwell, John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates, Tobias Wolff, Frank Conroy, Alice Adams, Stewart O'Nan, Charles Baxter--short stories and novels--and from Mary Karr's The Liar's Club...
Nathans, an notoriously early riser, had gone to work at the Freshman Dean's office before the 8 a.m. breakfast meeting at the Faculty Club...
Harvard has never beaten Princeton in 24 meetings, and the Tigers possess some more pitchers who can throw the riser...