Word: roomming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I occasionally play Hank Williams, Jr. tunes in my room, my Harvard friends get a pretty good laugh. Hank sings about such ignorant, redneck things, you see. Things like the injustice of killers getting off free; the dignity of gainful labor; fear of violent crime; having respect for the flag. Really stupid stuff...
...closed-door session lasted three hours in the committee room in the basement of the U.S. Capitol building. No official statements or decisions emerged from what was a preliminary session and members had no comment on the discussion...
...same breath, he states that "most of us already rely on our good sense when we let people into the dorms." He also brings up last October's incident in Hollis, in which a well dressed intruder was let into the entryway, and then entered an unlocked student room...
...telephone per person would be the only fair arrangement. There are only two catches: our various phones are extensions of only one line, so unlike our bedrooms, they can only be used one at a time. And somehow, we ended up deciding to put another extension in the common room (to go with the answering machine). So if you believe there's power in numbers, then the phones have the power in our room...
Things aren't always so easy, of course. My roommates and I are not always on exactly the same wavelength. It so happens that the pause between rings is exceedingly long in our room. Thus, I often pick up the receiver toward the start of the third pause and am already engrossed in conversation when one of my roommates gets around to answering the phone at what they mistakenly think is the tail end of the long-gone pause. In such cases, a "Hello?" suddenly punctuates my discourse, and I usually decide it's easier to say I'm schizophrenic...