Word: wee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Daley. After Washington's upset win last week, however, it appeared the twice-elected Congressman and his staff might not only enter city hall but own it. "You want Harold?" he cracked to a chanting throng of jubilant well-wishers in his South Side hotel in the wee hours following election day. "You've really...
Just as I was deciding that it would be a pretty good idea to take a hot shower. I thought of a friend of mine who had been standing in a line since the wee hours of the morning so that she could buy my tickets for this weekend's ECAC hockey playoffs...
Cook, who calls Moore "the Wee Wonder" and "the Megamidget," probably became as close to Moore as anyone ever has, but their relationship was sometimes stormy. "We always got along well together when we were alone," says Moore, "but sometimes when other people were around, there was a competition. One of us was always trying to get the better of the other and, in public, we each adopted a superior attitude. He was bored by my desire to please, and I scorned his relentless and perverse cynicism...
Burke remembers learning to skate in "a truck yard behind the house--a guy used to flood the garden and let it freeze." From the sound of it, he's barely stopped skating since, playing in the Pee Wee leagues for South Boston when he was seven or eight. "We played kids 10 or 11 or 12 years of age--we beat 'em. too," he says...
Take Cambridge, for example. After turning in articles at The Crimson in the wee hours, I often walk back to my dorm in the Quad. There's usually a good chance that the police (Harvard or Cambridge) will "escort" me there, as they have done so often in the past. The game starts when they pass you in the police car, then turn down the next available side street. About two blocks later, they reappear from another side street just as you reach it, and drive past again, but in the opposite direction. A minute later, the whole process starts...