Word: rubbings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the added experience gained from the junior nationals, Harvard Coach Harry Parker put Sharis in the Harvard varsity boat the following spring and Sharis' newfound magic touch continued to rub off, as the Crimson eight went on to win the national championship in Cincinnati...
Then comes a telling reference, frequently echoed in Moscow, to the aftermath of World War I: "The U.S. and the West must not rub our noses too much in our defeat; it must not impose on us at the end of the 20th century a version of the Treaty of Versailles that caused so much trouble at the beginning. We don't want to feel like Weimar Germany. And you shouldn't want us to." Not even in private will a patriotic Soviet finish that thought: the Weimar Republic gave way to Hitler's Third Reich. Yet that is what...
Therein lies the rub. Women know that the hard-won choice to work has somehow turned into an imperative to do so, but without the support at home that makes it feasible. The professional classes paper over the shortfall by hiring a small army of parental surrogates, by accepting a reduced idea of the emotional needs of family life, and by lobbying for flextime and expanded day care. But no act of Congress will ever allow a parent to be in two places at once...
...then the Lowell House Happiness Committee Co-chairs rub their hands deviously and plot their cruel act. In the mail I receive a little, embossed, parchment-colored invitation: "You and a guest," it taunts. Now I face a dilemma. Either I have to go out and actively search for a date, or I am faced with the prospect of acknowledging that I am a loser staying home on formal night. What...
...crowd and the band really helped us,"Johnson later said. "Fans can have an effect onthe meet. They rub it in when you lose...