Word: skips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to tell politicians and networks something-about conventions as well as about the choice of candidates. If a political convention were a sitcom, it would be canceled by now. If it were a miniseries, as in some respects it is, any producer would be devising more ways to skip the boring parts and speed it up. Conventions, however, are the work of four different and uncoordinated producers-the party chairman and the three networks-all vying for an audience that gets smaller and smaller. Almost as many viewers in the New York City area watched an old Marilyn Monroe...
More freshman trips--to the Boston Harbor Islands, along the Freedom Trail, a geology field trip, and an architectural tour. Sleep off the hangover, and skip the trips...
...Reading test, required of all new students. Skip all adjectives and adverbs. Look at the last few pages for a summary--the answers are cleverly cloaked there. The biggest lesson this test can teach you is how to make sure to read introductions and conclusions, no matter what. If you don't do well, you will be referred to the Bureau of Study Counsel reading comprehension course, which will cost you. But if you do poorly, you might do well to take the minicourse. If you think you just had a bad day, don't sweat and don't bother...
Well, I've got to run. This working girl is going to skip lunch and use the hour to make love to Roger. Some 55% of us say we indulge in such sex breaks. I love that survey. I guess you could say I'm that median Cosmopolitan girl...
...that he rode the elephant for sport. To stay in shape, Sellers did a stint as vice-president of the London Judo Club and was never one to skip a few innings at the Marylbone Cricket Club. But soon the heart attacks started coming, the first in 1964, and then nearly every other year until Tuesday night, when his heart simply deteriorated. He slipped into a coma while lunching at the Dorchester Hotel and died four hours later...