Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each summer of his childhood, George Bush went with his family to a sprawling shingle-and-stone cottage in Kennebunkport, Me., joined by assorted cousins and friends who could always find a spare bedroom, an extra tennis racquet. Days were crammed with sailing and tennis at the River Club, fierce games of backgammon and Scrabble at night. After Prescott Bush Sr., the imposing (6 ft. 4 in.) patriarch, arrived by sleeper car from Manhattan on the weekends, he would recruit a vocal quartet from the assembled company for after-dinner harmonizing. Family Friend Bill Truesdale describes those summers...
...would say he found himself in the worst possible situation and handled it in an excellent way," Geoffrey Stone, dean of the University of Chicago Law School, said after Vorenberg's resignation. "It was one of the biggest problems any dean in American law schools has faced in recent years. He handled it in a way that was much to his credit...
Despite the interests they share, each occupies a unique place within the group. Elby is something of a clown, whose refusal to feel embarrassment, no matter what the situation, is a constant source of both amusement and consternation to his roommates. Stone is the most sedate, and observers describe him as the group's stabilizer. Martin and Salovaara occupy a middle ground, the former tending to be more cynical, the latter more outgoing. "I think that Erik and I have to take a bit of credit for loosening Nick up a bit, getting him a bit more lecherous," Elby says...
Commencement will break up their shared routine forever. Stone will stay in Cambridge to enter Harvard's Ph.D. program in government, Elby will study in England for a year before entering a doctoral program in physics at the University of California at Berkeley, Salovaara will return to Chicago to find a job in law court administration, and Martin will work for the Washington Monthly...
...fire reduced Yale's metal-framed shanty--which originally consisted of three buildings when students erected it in early 1986 but was later connected together--to bits of wood and twisted steel. The blaze, which caused no injuries, cracked the stone beneath the shanty, engulfed nearby trees and planters and slightly damaged an adjacent memorial to the anti-apartheid movement...