Word: wee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there has been a certain decline in the nation's moral values--the proliferation of pornography, as Will notes, serves as evidence. But government is most often impotent in dealing with matters of personal conduct: the liquor business thrived under prohibition; marijuana dealers have no problems peddling the illegal wee. Will argued, however, that laws can affect people's ethics, citing two examples: the Civil War, and the Civil Rights legislation of a century later. In the case of the former, Will said Abraham Lincoln decided than an immoral act--the spread of slavery--had gone too far. Lincoln enforced...
...Crusaders play the best game a Holy Cross football team has played in fifteen years and catch the Bulldogs napping. Dave Boisture and Andy Clivio dance in the streets of Worcester 'til the wee hours...
...room is a trove of bric-a-brac: a bogus Oscar inscribed to "Ed Koch, Mayor for Life"; a trophy from the Friars Club; sheet music of an old song called "How'm I Doin'?" (Koch seems curiously remote from these toys, as he does from the bizarre Pee Wee, a giant black-and-white wooden rabbit that sits in his bedroom in Gracie Mansion.) There is a sculpture of Romulus and Remus under the wolf, and a photo of the mayor on top of a camel in Egypt...
...room in Memorial Hall. Schatz also arranged a gay hotline after hearing that a large percentage of the phone calls that Room 13, the student counseling service, receives are related to gay concerns. The phone, with an extension on Schatz's room so he could man it in the wee hours of the morning, rang at all hours. "I would get calls at three in the morning...
...help of a handful of aides, he analyzed every significant governmental issue. The Stockman summaries became a crucial part of G.O.P. strategy. Each committee report-some running to hundreds of pages -was read and boiled down to a few sheets. "We worked a lot of nights into the wee hours," says Stockman with a wan smile. Nor was that flood of hundreds of congressional initiatives his only fare. When Nixon proposed chopping 112 federal programs in 1973, Stockman and his loyal band delved into each...