Word: wee
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When I was but a wee first-year, my expectations for my career at (what I unpretentiously assumed to be) the best university in the world were sky-high. I believed I could take hard classes, volunteer in the afternoons, work ten hours a week and still party like the lively first-year I was (weekends only, of course). I also thought I could join the Undergraduate Council. Boy, was I wrong...
...forget to allow for time to take in the seals basking on the harbor's rocks and to visit Kildalton High Cross, built in A.D. 800. And be sure to sneak a small flask into your pocket and walk. Scotland is a spiritually beautiful country, and a wee drink makes it all the more...
...lighten up a little bit." So he ditched the minimalism and began making fantastical, skewed pieces of furniture--and inadvertently entered one of the fastest-growing markets in the industry: luxury furniture for children's rooms. Now he and his Straight Line Designs team create his Pee-wee's Playhouse--like pieces for prices ranging from $300 to $5,000 and even higher for custom pieces. "It costs a lot to make a carrot with drawers," Beaumont says...
...years in their midst, I thought I’d finally lost them. I had driven 18 hours into the deserted hinterland that is rural New England, passed below stormy skies and crawled alongside a sea of Phish and finally made my way across the border in the wee morning hours—and, I naively assumed, safely outside their pestering reach...
That said, he can point to some undeniable successes. On March 1, Bremer and the council worked until the wee hours of the morning on the so-called Transitional Administrative Law, a document that, while only temporary, may provide the basis for a new Iraqi constitution...