Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...assistant manager of Petco on 119 First St. reported that a man placed a parakeet in his pocket. When the man saw he had been observed, he restored the parakeet to a shelf and left the store...
...would the "editors involved" that you cite want to be anonymous? Perhaps to keep them from being besieged with inquiries from other reporters inquiring as to how I "saw" other events that have happened to me. IRA E. STOLL '94 New York City...
...restaurants, in dining halls, in lines for washing machines, in the audiences at concerts and at other events. We remember them as "The Girl Who Always Wears My Purple Shirt" or "Fifth-Floor Lamont Guy" or "Laundry-Basket Boy" or "Pre-Frosh." We might even remember when we first saw them. They are the people who shopped that seminar with us last semester but didn't take it, the people who waited in line with us for an interview but didn't get the job, the people who auditioned with us for a play but didn't get the part...
Most career civil servants like Tripp, especially those trusted enough to work in the White House, are ferociously competent and unrelentingly discreet. They often stay for decades, and they keep their mouth shut. Tripp was different. She was seen as a schoolmarm, a bit obsessed with improprieties she saw around her. She once turned in an Army reservist for "petty wrongdoing," according to the Washington Post, and consequently got the man fired...
...painter who lived through a time of doctrinal crisis in the church, which left visible marks on his already self-reproachful and even morbid personality; a link between the exaggerated graces of Botticelli (who died when Lotto was around 30) and the learned artificialities of Mannerism; an Italian who saw the point of Netherlandish art and Hieronymus Bosch along with Germans like Altdorfer and, especially, Durer, not long after Durer himself was being changed by Venice...