Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were a bit surprised. But since I keep my Pooh-gear confined to my own little room which I keep all year (the only advantage of Canaday), it doesn't really bother or affect them at all. I think the key is that Winnie the Pooh is not the thing I'm interested in; it's just what I want my room to look like...
...here--except for maybe a woman who washed the dishes and helped to cook in the kitchen. It is because when Josephina [Cafe Pamplona's owner] came to America in 1947 from Pamplona, Spain, there were no female waitresses in all of Pamplona. So it is strictly a cultural thing. Cafe Pamplona is somewhat of a theme restaurant, and Josephina wants to make it as authentic as possible...
...trim the fat." "Let's get back to basics," they might say, pointing to a 3-D pie chart on their PowerPoint presentation. It was as though the Starr report had just come out and everyone was smoking cigars. And I couldn't think of a single sarcastic thing...
Finally, a few suggested that we put the thing into an object that the campus will hold as semi-sacred. This could be the base of the John Harvard statue, the tower of Memorial Hall or a metal mold resembling the Eudocimus albus (the North American ibis...
...thing, we only have one body with which to work. This body has been subjected to systematic sleep deprivation, high levels of stress and, in the latest weeks, dramatic fluctuations in temperature and pressure. The increased desire for sleep may be reflective of nothing more than normal exhaustion...