Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Minister Farrakhan's performance, playing to a packed house, rose through Washington's sweet October air and bounced off satellites. Farrakhan banged on the American mind with a silk umbrella and the handle of a broom: Mumbo jumbo will hoodoo you. He went on about obelisks and the intricate, unintelligible meanings of mystical, pseudo-Pharaonic numerologies. He sounded by turns menacing and Rotarian: a salesman in a sharp bow tie, the hallucination of Mussolini channeling Booker T. Washington. Behind him postured his son from the Fruit of Islam, in sunglasses and paramilitary Graustark...
Harvard College has two major umbrella public service organizations--the Phillip Brooks House Association (PBHA) and the House and Neighborhood Development program (HAND)--both of which will benefit from Buttenwieser's gift, according to the Gazette...
...women with thick New York accents chatted about their families. A teenage girl in a light blue satiny shirt stood reclining against her boyfriend. A smartly uniformed doorman on 75th St. told those blocking his entrance about a store where they could find a magazine. In the autumn rain, umbrella salesmen were making a killing...
Also defeated were Jenn R. Dean '96, who has served only one semester on the council, and new-comer Jeremy R. Jenkins '97, who ran for the first time this semester under the umbrella of the Progressive Undergraduate Council Coalition (PUCC...
...British Prime Minister John Major argued vehemently against arming the embattled Bosnians. Major, who, save for the dearth of a bowler hat and umbrella is a worthy successor to the exalted post of Neville Chamberlain, said that arming the Bosnians would prolong the conflict. He is absolutely right. Had the U.S. not "prolonged the conflict" by arming the British in World War II, Herr Major would now be celebrating Oktoberfest in Trafalgar Square as we entered year 63 of the thousand-year Reich. We must never forget...