Word: smelt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of the notables invited to the convention in that summer of 1787 simply refused to come. One, Virginia's Patrick Henry, said of the gathering in Philadelphia that he "smelt a rat." Others came and found the impassioned arguments profoundly dispiriting. "I almost despair of seeing a favorable issue to the proceedings of the convention," George Washington wrote to Alexander Hamilton, who had already gone back to New York City, "and do | therefore repent having had any agency in the business...
...Boathouse. Rent a canoe, and paddle out with your lunch and The Post to one of the Three Sisters' Islands. From there, you might wallow in your tranquility by watching the traffic snarl on Key Bridge a quarter of a mile away--too far to be heard or smelt, but close enough to enjoy...
...institution that rigorously prepared boys for the great public schools. Eric, 8, was caned for bed wetting: the place encouraged him to feel unworthy. "I had no money, I was weak, I was ugly, I was unpopular, I had a chronic cough, I was cowardly, I smelt, I was an unattractive...