Word: warmness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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NELC Department Administrator Carol Cross remembered Lichtenstadter as a "very warm, fine woman who was always generous with her time, even after she retired...
...recalls "probably the most radical thing we did": one warm spring night, after the Metropolitan District Commission announced that it wanted to tear down trees along Memorial Drive to build overpasses, a group of students walked down to the river and began chanting "Save the Sycamores" in protest...
...vice presidency calls up its rueful folklore. "Cactus Jack" Garner of Texas, F.D.R.'s Vice President from 1933 to 1941, did not say the office was "not worth a pitcher of warm spit." He said it was "not worth a pitcher of warm piss." The line is almost always cleaned up for the civics class. No one has improved on Mr. Dooley's formulation: "Th' Prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th' people. Th' Vice-Prisidincy is th' next highest an' th' lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail...
...half hour before the match, Princeton had little hope and no idea that Shyjan was injured. Fish had Shyjan warm up with the other players, and Princeton lacked enthusiasm. But when Fish finally submitted his line-up card, Princeton came alive...
...Journalists aboard Baker's plane, however, thought the more compelling story was that Saudi Arabia -- touted by Washington for months as the keystone of a new moderate Arab alliance -- would not attend the conference as a full member. The official tried to persuade the reporters that King Hussein's warm but vague words deserved the headlines. "Fasten your seat belts -- emergency spin control," cracked one reporter...