Word: set
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...side of the altar on the floor. To gain access, almost every guest--from Senators to George magazine staff members to Kennedy White House veterans--had to show an invitation about the size of an index card with the guest's name printed on it. The family was so set on privacy that not even the church staff could attend the service...
...vacated flat of some very distant relatives. These were wealthy people, so I figured I'd be spending my first week in style. Indeed, physical comfort abounded in their central London flat, but the place lacked one essential ingredient: people to talk to. Without so much as a television set, I found myself wandering around the flat in complete silence. They say that solitude is bliss, but with no one to talk to, I didn't quite know what to do with myself. Needless to say, I was desperate to find a better-populated housing arrangement...
Burke said the search committee--which she co-chairs with Professor Thomas E. Patterson--has no set deadline for completion...
...killed the remaining lights and wondered what to do next. The reports from Mark and Steve told us that the riots were getting worse, and that we were probably going to have trouble retrieving our vans from the parking lot to the tent where Awaremusic had set up shop...
...shadowed corner of the lobby at the National Press Club, someone set up a relic for display. Cast iron, with its maker's mark riveted to the front, the ancient Teletype machine looks ready to do battle once again after little more than a nap, spitting out headlines to chain-smoking reporters, getting even the most hard-boiled excited as it prints out "Flash...!" Anyone who stops to look closer at the immovable museum piece will see another quaint reminder of a time gone by in the newspaper business: the Teletype is stamped United Press International...