Word: riveting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...junior faculty member, Geller spoke often as a part of Harvard's capital campaign. In January of 1995, Dean Knowles wrote Geller a letter thanking her for her "many uplifting [capital] campaign appearances...You continue to rivet the interest of our alumni (and our colleagues...
Above the fighters is the intel package: E-3 AWACS and E-2C radar planes, E-8 Joint STARS ground-surveillance planes and RC-135 Rivet Joint planes. They comb the sky and ground for the enemy, feed targets to pilots and keep allied warplanes safely apart. When you near your target, you peel off from your buddies, dodging antiaircraft artillery and corkscrewing missiles...
...small town of Lake Placid, Florida, where Archbold is located, contains 27 lakes, and its main industries are citrus growing, ranching and the production of caladium flowers, a flower almost exclusive to the region. It is a town where art along the local supermarket wall can rivet visiting students' attention. The mural, which depicts a scene of cattle ranching, emits a loud mooing noise accompanied by sounds of stampeding cattle every few minutes...
JACKIE KENNEDY ONASSIS She died in 1994, but bios of her still rivet us with accounts of her premarital sex life...
...relatives who Nella turns to for shelter are equally unique. Georgia, played at full throttle by Zoe Sarnat, is a white-trash-from-hell maniac, who constantly deflects attention away from the rivet in her head and towards the destitute houseguests. Her husband, Howard, (Alex Haseltine) is even more over...