Word: sit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typical Friday night at Loker, a couple ofstudents sit in the darkened television roomwatching "The Simpsons." Two more are playingnine-ball at one of the pool tables. A few othershuddle in the restaurant-style booths, working oncover letters and problem sets. The coffeehouseand fast food counter closed a half an hourbefore. The e-mail terminals are unoccupied. TheLED light board goes unwatched...
Lewinsky: No. It's a possibility. I think if I could get into law school without having to take the LSAT, that would make it different. The idea of having to sit down and prepare for a standardized test and then worry about whether my scores will be leaked to the world is a little daunting...
...Galleria is so ghostly quiet you're tempted to do a grave dance and let it echo to the rafters. It has the feel of a thousand downtown shopping districts sucked dry by indistinguishable beasts like this one. Foot Locker, Structure and Florsheim Shoes sit empty. Victoria's Secret is naked. Only a handful of the 120 stores are still open, Orange Julius and Howick's Fine Gifts & Jewelry among them, but they'll soon be gone, and an 18-month renovation will turn the space into an office center with a few shops and restaurants...
...site is marked by a cairn of rocks, started by Bronson Alcott after Thoreau died in 1862 and supplemented over the years by reverent visitors. Nearby, a facsimile of Thoreau's tiny, spartan home reflects his belief that freedom lay in simplicity. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself," he wrote, "than be crowded on a velvet cushion...
...easier than the web of idiocy spawned by such rumors would imply. Rumors succeed because even the most brilliant people are surprisingly unskeptical, particularly if the rumor bases itself on a premise that one should be skeptical of something else. It's simple. All you have to do is sit down in some very large survey class and start talking to a friend, softly enough so that it's clear you don't intend to be overheard but loudly enough so that you know you will be, about how of course the administration likes to tell everyone that housing assignments...