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Word: wee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realize you have to leave a message?" the person said. "Sam Wee gets over one hundred phone calls every day, and he can't keep track of them unless they're on the recording...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Blurred Distinctions | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...WEE IS from Wichita, Kansas, as is his roommate Don Nicholson, this year's secretary general of the Harvard National Model United Nations. In a suite adjoining Wee and Nicholson's, lives Clark Pellett, from Atlantic, Iowa, who was secretary-general of last year's Harvard Model United Nations along with Jarius DeWalt, who is from a small town in New York. Twice every year they and some other Harvard students run a mock United Nations conference for high school and college students from across the country, arranging and presiding over four days of conferences and social events that...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Blurred Distinctions | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...first time I talked to the Mather 311 Phonemate it took me by surprise and I didn't know what to say at the sound of the tone, so I hung up. I called back an hour later and a person answered. I asked to speak to Sam Wee, who was secretary-general of the Harvard National Model United Nations last year...

Author: By Nick Lemann, | Title: Blurred Distinctions | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

Brother Blue is not a French Surrealist, but a "storvteller" who's been featured on Eric Jackson a wee hours show on WBCH in recent weeks WBCN is quite stupid to do this, both Brother Blue and Jackson himself have low deep voices that put me, at least to sleep--preciously what I don't need at 4 a.m. (Which is when Brother Blue comes on). He might be less soporific in person, at a relatively early hour (11:59 p.m.), In the Currier House Senior Common Room Saturday night...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: THE STAGE | 3/13/1975 | See Source »

...more pet owners in the U.S.-deriving, perhaps, psychological sustenance from what Kipling called the dog's "love unflinching that cannot lie." Spoiled and pampered as it may be, the pet population still yields redoubtable characters and friends of man: the cat who stays up until the wee hours until his late-working owner arrives home; the dog that stands watch by a sick child or guards an empty apartment; Mimi the miniature poodle in Danbury, Conn., who in 1972 saved eight persons' lives, barking and licking at their faces when a late-night fire broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great American Animal Farm | 12/23/1974 | See Source »

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