Word: skirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...upside down in a kayak in San Francisco Bay, fighting panic. I'm not sure I can hold my breath much longer. I yank away at the tab that attaches a rubber spray skirt--and me--to the two-person boat, the bottom of whose hull is bobbing on the surface...
...this impossible? It seemed so easy in that one-hour lesson back at the beach, where I worried only that I would never remember all the paddle strokes and regretted that I looked ridiculous in a green wet suit, fuchsia-colored shoes, rust T shirt and blue kayak skirt. Now I no longer care that my colors clash. I don't know if I'm cold. I don't know how long I've been underwater. I don't even know if I can see anything. I've forgotten that I have an expert partner who would save...
...saying to Sally, 'You look hot today.' Kids take that as a compliment," says Nan Stein, a former middle school teacher and currently director of the Project on Bullying and Sexual Harassment in Schools at Wellesley College Center for Research on Women. "Harassment is if he flips up her skirt or tries to pull down her pants. And boys can also be victims of harassment or sexual bullying." The most serious cases could involve sexual touching, bumping or grabbing, as well as lewd talk and the passing of sexually explicit pictures or notes...
...center in the general election. Her calculation involves some new math, based on the belief that her survival depends on drawing into the primaries some moderates and independents and women like Toni Pappas, who jumped from her seat and cheered, "You go, girl!" and "It's time for a skirt!" "For most women, guns are so irrational," says a Dole adviser. "What she did was just perfect for who we're trying to target...
...Brand's parents') in the Quad "makes visiting friends by the River much easier." Skateboards and Rollerblades come out of the closet when the weather is decent. For most Quad residents, however, biking provides the most convenient and accessible mode of alternative transportation (if the least skirt-friendly). Significantly faster than walking, biking doesn't require a schedule or any Shuttleboy savvy. And although pitfalls include rampant campus bike theft and recent legislation prohibiting sidewalk-riding, hordes of Quadlings agree with sophomore Luke E. Stoeckel '01: "I couldn't imagine my life without a bike...