Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next day I met elevator boy--I'll call him E. for short--at his place of work. E. was answering phones while his co-worker took a bathroom break, so I took a seat in the reception area. Just as the pleather seats were starting to itch my panty hose, the other intern returned. Catching me looking impatient, she asked if I'd been helped, and, in the same breath asked E. when the "lunch chick" was going to arrive...
...celebrate in men's hair innovation during the past 300 years: the powdered wig, the Mohawk, the ducktail--not proud moments. So we should probably not be surprised at the latest expression of men's vanity: tipping, in which guys bleach or dye just the tops of their short, spiky strands, leaving their roots long and exposed. Imagine Heather Locklear if her hair were attacked by a razor...
...those bygone letter-writing days were a half-dozen cities in England and Canada, plus Singapore and New Zealand, among others. Perhaps the one thing that kept us lazy kids writing to one another was the chance to add so many exotic stamps to our growing collections. Besides occasional short notes, we did not share too much of our experiences as each of us faced the challenges of learning English and living in a foreign country, plus the conventional dramas of middle and high school life, years that we should have spent together under normal circumstances...
...would be ridiculous to hire short-term," he said. "We try to get the best coach and hope he has a long successful career...
...University's current analysis of its casual employment situation is derived from a "snap shot" of the University pay-rolls the week of February 20. While the results were constrained by the short time period, they revealed that out of a total of about 15,000 employees, 1,361 were "casual employees...