Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from the outset," Ciollo said. "Droppingthe baton definitely frustrated Yale from the verybeginning. We knew we went in as underdogs, knewthat we would have to execute to best of ourabilities to beat these guys, and I think that inbeating Yale, we came together very well as ateam. We appear to be in very good shape for thechampionship meet...
...might be related to Robert E. Lee, as several generations had a family member with the middle name Lee or Lea in honor of the general. It turned out that his great-great-great-grandfather had been an admirer, not a relative, of Lee's. In fact, as he went back, Stokes found his first American ancestors were indentured servants. "We came to America basically as white slaves," he says, with a laugh. Lately, Harold Brooks-Baker--head of Burke's Peerage, the British company that does genealogical searches--sees a change. People are less obsessed with nobility and more...
...point of the story is that I went back to school and infected my friends with the skill, and it then spread around the school with the speed of measles and pretty much the same epidemiological time course. I don't know whether the epidemic subsequently jumped to other schools (a boarding school is a somewhat isolated backwater of the meme pool). But I do know that my father originally picked up the Chinese-junk meme during an almost identical epidemic at the same school 25 years earlier. The earlier virus was launched by the school matron. Long after...
...excuse me, Patricia, and Ed...excuse me, Edward, met on a blind date in 1968, but it wasn't until 1975 that they went down the aisle. "I married him because of his ethics. He's a good man, with a clear idea of what's right and what's wrong. And if it's wrong, he won't do it, no matter how it might benefit him personally...
...Thomas Jefferson's favorite classical building--in fact, Jefferson based his whole conception of Neo-Classical architecture on it--and one obviously had to approach such a historical object with caution. Would the solution be a pastiche historical arts center? Foster was sure not. "I went there incognito before the commission was announced," he recalls. "I walked the site for hours. The challenge was to do a contemporary building that could face the Roman temple directly but not be intimidated by it." The result, a crystalline rectangular structure with sun screens, does exactly that. Its transparent grid defers...