Word: spending
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young married woman, only 20 pounds away from being a California Girl, comes up. "I spend the whole day here. They have a lot of things to keep you busy?electrologist, beauty parlor, masseuse, steam room, baths, pool, coffee shop. You never have to leave. I've learned to use cocoa butter for my skin, take vitamin A for my hair, cuticle cream for my nails, and I've bought a new wig. It's a whole way of life. Except some of these older ladies here don't really lose any weight...
...spend the day. When you're naked in the steam room, there's no facades. Some of them spend eight hours a day in here; this place is their whole life...
Some would argue that it is impossible to make distinctions along the continuum, that in order to protect essential university activities, academic freedom must be extended to cover the entire continuum including even such projects as MIRV. Yet human beings spend much of their lives making just such fine distinctions: though it may be difficult, it is not impossible to decide what a university should and should not do. The distinctions thus made can be upheld-and the essential activities of a university protected-only if they are made rationally, through a continuing debate striving for a wide agreement...
They invited us to sit down and then they started talking. They wanted to tell us about themselves and what they did. One is the President of the Don Juan's, the Cambridge drum and bugle corps. She and her friend spend most of their time working for the girls, getting uniforms and instruments, scheduling appearances and at the moment searching for an indoor armory where the corps could drill...
...this context, Bored of the Rings is a commendable attempt to re-establish the genre along its old classical lines. As with any decent parody, Bored operates on the assumption that anyone who might be frivolous enough to spend a buck on anything that bears the Lampoon's moniker must have already been foolish enough to read through all of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So. it is only fitting and just, that Bored tells the mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across...