Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bill's opponents saw the bill as an attack on Radcliffe, since the bill might have eliminated a mention of Radcliffe on the diplomas...
Hayashida said that though it was a challenge getting such a large production off the ground with such a small college club, "It was totally worth it." "We put this on to spread Hawaiian culture," he said. Talking to him, I saw the importance of the luau, not just to spread Hawaiian culture but also to keep it alive in our lives here in Boston while we're so far from home. Zoe Kwok, a Wellesley sophomore, related that she felt that the luau "was an accurate representation of Hawaiian culture and a great place for people from Hawaii...
...have any students because who in their right mind was going to study Chinese when they grew up in Iowa. I had never even eaten Chinese food, I had never even thought about China until I was 18 years old and ended up in Iowa City, and I saw a poster saying critical language studies. Of course in those days, and this was the early 60s "critical languages" was a euphemism for "enemy language." They were advertising fellowships for Chinese, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. It was pretty apparent what they had in mind...
...secretary. She risked ridicule to explain (untruthfully, of course) why there was an 18-and-a-half minute gap in the Oval Office tapes, conjuring a picture of her acrobatic and spastic self pressing the wrong button of the recording machine while trying to answer the phone. As she saw it, she would have been nowhere without Nixon, and she would not betray him in his darkest hour to his enemies...
White didn't present those stereotypes as something he was struggling to overcome. He was fine with them. That's how he saw people. And that's why he's dead wrong...