Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only consult with the dictators, but also to be photographed with them. And the limit has been reached, I think, last Christmas-New Year's, in fact, in Greece they celebrate New Year's more than they celebrate Christmas. But the children of the American personnel were gathered to sing the Christmas carols to Papadopoulos. They came to his office. There's a picture of the children of the American embassy personnel singing Christmas carols to Papadopoulos. I mean, they've gone the limit, in bad taste among other things...
After an hour of casual drinking, mingling and nametag reading, the party began in earnest when we rose, glasses in hand, to sing the newly written "Cambridge Day." Cambridge Day just happens to fall on Saint Patrick's Day and so, to the tune of "When Irish Eyes are Smiling," a feeble chorus rose...
...simply doesn't have Peter Sellers' comic talent. Dorothy Loudon as Mrs. Haze does a fairly good Shelley Winters imitation, but she overplays a part that is overwritten in the first place. Denise Nickerson as Lolita just can't project the sexual attraction of the nymphet, and can't sing either...
Caring is what we sing about, write about, talk endlessly about-and do nothing about. Schuyler does. Its students dare to do, and to be free of the mindless conformity of nonconformity...
...alumni, on the other hand, oppose equal sex admissions for more sentimental reasons. Somehow it just wouldn't sound right to sing "Ten thousand men and women of Harvard," Alumni, especially the older ones (who often happen to be the more generous ones) look back with pride upon the tradition of a men's college and look forward to the day when their sons will enter Harvard...