Word: scheming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group leaders to rally behind the council and arrange meetings with Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III to lobby for the cause. Of the objectives outlined, the first, concerning the capital campaign, is the most important. Without a tangible scheme to raise money for this endeavor, it will forever remain a pipe dream. Activists should concentrate their efforts on that demand. All the planning committees in the world won't mean anything without a solid financial foundation...
Occasionally, alone on the road in the middle of the night, a set of headlights in the rearview mirror can become, in my head, a psychotic policeman with an unstoppable, irrational scheme to plant drugs or a gun in my car and arrest me for resisting arrest: all for the sadistic kick of an easy hunt. Or maybe he'll even give me a speeding ticket. Certainly I don't really believe all this paranoia, but this imaginary psychopath suggests an authority amidst the chaos of my midnight highway that is, I might even say, comforting...
Throughout Riley's guided tour of the museum, be often paused for commentary on the acquisitive Gardner herself, accommodating her into his dualist scheme. He stressed that she was both a romantic wanderer who longed for emotional connection with art, as well as a scientific archeologist, who strove to understand art. He emphasized that her collection in intended to educate but is simultaneously an expression of her own artistic senses. Although it might appear to exist in pleasing disarray, it was actually thoughtfully and wittily designed...
...easygoing pair has a propensity for planning capers and getting into trouble. Take their ticket-scalping scheme for last year's Culture Rhythms: "We bought 50 or 70 tickets and released them slowly," Aaron explains with a laugh. "It worked like a charm and we charged whatever the market would bear. We even got e-mails this year asking for tickets," (Perhaps this explains this year's two ticket-per-person limit.) Their troubles now tend to be more dangerous. "We almost got shot in Central Square," Aaron recalls. "Whenever we go out, trouble just finds us." "Trouble finds...
...easygoing pair has a propensity for planning capers and getting into trouble. Take their ticket-scalping scheme for last year's Cultural Rhythms: "We bought 50 or 70 tickets and released them slowly," Aaron explains with a laugh. "It worked like a charm and we charged whatever the market would bear. We even got e-mails this year asking for tickets." (Perhaps this explains this year's two tickets-per-person limit.) Their troubles now tend to be more dangerous. "We almost got shot in Central Square," Aaron recalls. "Whenever we go out, trouble just finds us." "Trouble finds...