Word: ve
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intrepid investigative journalist and wistful senior, I've been going to a lot of senior bars lately trying to find the source of their dubious appeal. After all, the illicit thrill of drinking when you are underage is gone if you're a senior. Three-fourths of the partygoers are not seniors, the people you presumably came to see. Conversation is impossible, and the press toward the keg of lame beer resembles a British soccer match...
Start with his 12.0 points per game, third on the squad behind sophomore Ralph James and senior Mike Gielen, and add in his teamleading 6.6 rebounds per game and you've got some interest. Throw in the fact that he started every game at power forward as a freshman, and you've got yourself a strong candidate...
Some critics of the airlines have accused them of opposing new airport construction because the additional gates would bring new competition. "Obviously, we've got fewer players in the airline industry. That's what makes everybody concerned about the future," says Skinner. "I don't want to go back to the time when only the rich could travel by air." If airline prices keep heading north, however, growing numbers of the nonrich may find themselves grounded...
...boasting and self-abnegation. To a confidante who had read an early version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence noted, "The story I have to tell is one of the most splendid ever given a man for writing." He also downplayed his own participation in that story, adding, "I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself...
...study of Lawrence, strongly disagrees, and the evidence of the letters supports his dissent. Lawrence repeatedly expressed his abhorrence of physical contact with any fellow creature, female or male. He puzzled over fairly basic questions: "The period of enjoyment, in sex, seems to me a very doubtful one. I've asked the fellows in this hut (three or four go with women regularly). They are not sure: but they say it's all over in ten minutes: and the preliminaries -- which I discounted -- take up most of the ten minutes. For myself, I haven't tried it, & hope...