Word: strays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, Tec found that many of the rescuers had a history of doing good deeds before the war -- some visiting people in the hospital, others collecting books for poor students, still others taking care of stray animals. "They just got into the habit of doing good," she says. "If they hadn't perceived that pattern as natural, they might have been paralyzed into inaction." At the same time, most of them never planned to be rescuers. They found themselves responding to a need first and the danger second. Many shared a sense of universalism. "They saw the Jews...
...need a break from the touring, try a picnic of just a walk in Overton Park--just watch out for stray golf balls...
...chrome-plated ($85), the cart is selling like double-coupon groceries in pricey gift shops and even supermarkets in the U.S., Japan and Europe. "Call it the Pet Rock of the '90s," cracks Reidy, who conceived this "universal image" in 1989 as he wheeled a stray cart in a mall parking...
Although its model of politics is far from Universally accepted outside Cambridge. Harvard's Rational Choice Church doesn't seem to like those who stray from its dogma. It's impossible to determine how much power the orthodox rationalists have over tenure decisions. But Peterson's tenure bid, it is safe to say, was not helped by his view of politics--a view that happens to be heretical in some of Littauer's plusher offices...
...story of Camden is the story of boys who blind stray dogs after school, who come to Sunday Mass looking for cookies because they are hungry, who arm themselves with guns, knives and -- this winter's fad at $400 each -- hand grenades. It is the story of girls who dream of becoming hairdressers but wind up as whores, who get pregnant at 14 only to bury their infants. "We're a graveyard for everyone else's problems," says Doyle, "and there is a feeling that this is somehow acceptable because those who live here are poor. Well...