Word: seat
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...introduced to Andrew's father, who told his son that, while black women may be good for some things, having a real relationship with them wasn't among them. There were also the countless little things I was never quite sure were racially motivated, the restaurant that refused to seat me and my mostly black and Hispanic friends after prom, the mom who requested that another lifeguard perform first aid for her injured child, the doctor who looked at me funny when I told him I attend Harvard (yes, the one in Boston...
...Boston area certainly has its own international signs. On the subway, if you stand up and offer your seat to an old woman, this tells your fellow passengers "I come from the South, where our lack of industrialization and continuing resentment of General Sherman are some-times overshadowed by our politeness. Now that I have been polite, please stare at me like I just grew another...
...entertain the irrational sort of fear is no way to spend our last days at Harvard (or even your first days). It is no way to spend the rest of our lives. So the next time Fear sidles up and takes a seat across from you in the dining hall, as he prattles on about staying "on track" and finding something to do "next year," interrupt him and ask, How was your day? Have you seen any good movies lately? Have you noticed the sunny weather? Or, if you're feeling really fearless, pick up your tray, push in your...
...Asian markets may be leaning off a ledge, but when the beepers started going off in the East Room, it was not the Secretaries of State and Defense who leaped from their tables and made for the doors. It was newsman Peter Jennings who "shot out of his seat like a rocket," a Clinton aide recalls. White House staff members had heard rumors all afternoon that something big, something bad was about to break. The blow came when printouts of a story from the next day's New York Times began to circulate suggesting that Clinton had coached his secretary...
...kinks showed up: the Olympic torch kept flickering out, and the first "suspicious package" swooped down on by security forces turned out to be full of toilet-seat warmers. But the point of the Olympics is to make embarrassment irrelevant. "Clinton has a chotto scandaru [little scandal]," a taxi driver chuckled last week. "It's a pity. No one will be thinking of our Olympics." As the Games began, the athletes were proving him--triumphantly--wrong...