Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Total strangers wandered through the dorm, madly introducing themselves, in search of instant friends. The nauseatingly sweet smell of incense (burned to cover the odor of dope) and the stench of old beer permeated the dorm. Music blared from every corner of the Yard, while huge groups of drunken men huddled and leered at women going from party to party. I got asked the big four questions--name, school, career plans, SAT scores--so often I could recite them in seconds (although I refused, as a matter of principle, to talk scores). After one night of parties...
...point is, don't be so self-conscious, don't be so quick to judge every babbling idiot or drunken scumbag you encounter, don't search for weighty metaphors or all-encompassing aphorisms to capture that "My word, everything's fucked up" feeling, don't try to create a niche for yourself in one week, and don't overrate the importance of those first few days...
Better recruiting and increased use of the College Board search services led to the "overall best year of minority admissions," Fitzsimmons said, adding that he hopes recruiting by minority students will have a "positive snowball effect," especially among Spanish-speaking students...
...producer who, with his partner Mark Goodson, pioneered the game show, creating TV's current smash hit Family Feud and What's My Line?, which ran for 17½ years; following heart surgery; in New York City. In addition to employing 90 television researchers in the search for convincing impostors for To Tell the Truth and offbeat confessors for I've Got a Secret, the "Gold Dust Twins" built a communications empire that once included 17 newspapers...
...loves a confidence man until it discovers its wallet is missing. Yet Wolff's account of this misspent life is absorbing throughout. It is not just the story of "a wreck of a desperado," as he calls the Duke at one point; it is an engrossing, often moving search for the troubled bond between sons and fathers that is known as love...