Word: wee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...away from Harvard, having voluntarily decided to spend this year working full-time as a field manager with Southwestern--a position normally reserved for college graduates. It has been a most educational and rewarding year--hopefully, others will not be "protected" from the opportunities I've enjoyed. Sam M. Wee...
After once arguing that outsiders cannot possibly know and front runners usually disappear, capital gurus are now taking seriously the idea that Jimmy Carter may get the nomination. Their reservations to date are proper. Yet their swiftly changing attitude toward "Wee Jimmy" (Reston's phrase) recalls at least the first phase of how Parisian journalists treated Napoleon in the 20 days after he escaped from Elba and landed in France: "The monster has escaped from his place of exile." "The Corsican werewolf has landed at Cannes." "The tyrant has reached Lyon." "The usurper has dared to advance within...
...loose ends in the casting and scheduling for next season. The session lasted almost until the 8 p.m. curtain. No supper-and a good thing too: he is a 5-ft. 10-in., 200-pounder trying to lose weight. Back home at 10 p.m., Levine worked until the wee hours at his desk on Berg's Lulu; he will be conducting it next season at the Met. Next day brought a meeting at a midtown hotel about this June's Ravinia Festival near Chicago, of which he is music director. Then home for a two-hour nap, dinner...
...turns out that many did, but it didn't do most of them any good. Thousands of ticket orders, even those postmarked in the wee hours of the first day, had come back unfilled. For relatively few of the World Series tickets were sold to the general public at random, competitive basis. Instead, the front office dispensed its favors through a largely covert system of political and corporate patronage...
...Ramsey and others have noted, death is a dread enemy to Christians, but it is not ultimately evil. In John Donne's words, "One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,/ And death shall be no more, death thou shalt...