Word: towards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a Harvard men's hockey player fell on top of junior goaltender J. R. Prestifilippo in practice last Monday, spraining his shoulder, all eyes eventually trained toward the other...
...with McNamara working on the project and with a brand-new computer system, "I feel more comfortable now saying we're moving toward accurate data," Riley said...
...bourgeois, means being socially pretentious. It fits Lawrence Otis Graham to a tee. His book, Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class (HarperCollins; 418 pages; $25), is the literary equivalent of the nose job Graham obtained so that he could "further buy into the aesthetic biases [toward light complexions, straight hair and sharp features] that many among the black elite hold so dear." In other words, to brownnose the black blue bloods...
...ride on the St. Charles Avenue streetcar takes visitors toward the French Quarter. The renowned Milton H. Latter Memorial Library at Soniat and St. Charles Avenue, which is on the way, is where Toole shelved books as a teen. With its crystal chandeliers, opulent ceiling murals and manicured grounds, this library takes reading to new heights of elegance...
...barbarism, it is remarkable that more trekkers were not slain. Elizabeth Garland, 29, an anthropology student at the University of Chicago, remembered to turn off her wristwatch alarm while she lay fear-stricken in her tent; the raiders never found her. Another American, Linda Adams, 53, walked a mile toward a certain death with the other captives, then feigned an asthma attack and was let go. Deanja Walther, 26, a Swiss flight attendant who speaks French, stayed with the English-speaking hostages even though the Hutus let the French-speaking tourists remain at the camp. Walther, who last September...