Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media bug bit me in my sixth year of working at Xerox," Brown says. "I had no idea of moving into it. It shows the value of Harvard training--it's a good dictionary education and I have no complaints. My life has been very fulfilling thus...
...which entered the double-elimination Regional as the five seed, had split its previous two games, a 16-1 shellacking at the hands of No. 8 and second-seeded Cal State-Fullerton (47-17, 25-5 Big West) and a 6-5 extra-inning win over sixth-seeded Nicholls State (28-34, 13-11 Southland...
...were sort of oblivious to the real risks he took," says son Peter S. Gill '78, who was unfazed upon noticing that his sixth-grade anthology of short stories contained works by James Thurber, Ogden Nash and Richard Gill. "We always thought this was typical...
Another question, perhaps unanswerable, is whether this and other recent incidents are part of a cycle in which each shooting spawns the next. Last week three sixth-grade boys were apprehended in St. Charles, Mo., for planning an attack on their school, apparently inspired by the Jonesboro incident. "In the past 10 years, we've seen a lot more real violence on television," says Aletha Huston, a professor of child development at the University of Texas at Austin. "It can feed the fantasies of disturbed adolescents...
...other hand, I know it looks a little off when I walk down Sixth Avenue talking to myself or stop, gesticulating, for the light at 48th Street, and make a scathing, irrefutable point to, um, myself. It could be worse--Tourette's syndrome, for example. Tourette's sounds awful; this just looks crazy--or maybe a third of the way there. People in the street flick me a glance...