Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...button to summon a. sure enough, smiling porter. There is red carpeting on the floor and even on the corridor walls of the 32-year-old, 91-ton Budd-built first-class car. There are privacy and freedom and a sense of camaraderie aboard. Things not there seem almost as important: no seat belts, Muzak, or portentous announcements; no sardine-can seating, yowling infants, elusive nanny-stewardesses, plastic trays of plastic food. And, St. Christopher be praised, no made-for-choo-choo movies...
...context of a conversation or when first being introduced to someone. I am not first and foremost disabled. Most people do not mind being asked about their disability when the subject comes up naturally. In those situations I prefer letting people who are curious know "what happened." They seem to feel more at ease when they understand why I am in a wheelchair...
...rooms seem to range from fairly clean to completely nauseating. Some of them are one step behind the Board of Health." Dierdre Donahue '80, a dorm crew worker in Winthrop House, said yesterday...
...quality all these authors seem to share is a traditionalism, be it about family values, the use of language or styles of music and clothing. Beyond this, it is increasingly difficult to tell a she-wit from simply a funny person...
This is the homestretch of the silly season, when state legislatures across the land seem to vie for the imaginary Golden Nit. There is nothing imaginary, though, about the time, effort and deliberation they customarily devote to the trivial, the insignificant, the utterly negligible. Nebraska's legislature, for example, has just dealt with a bill to add, as consumer representatives, two corpses to the state anatomical board: that passes for humor in Lincoln. Rhode Island's senators breezily adopted a resolution praising the hairdo of a female legislator, but the house turned aside a proposal to decree ricotta...