Word: whopper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ridiculous and unfounded--a claim for which neither Sack nor The Crimson could provide evidence. It would be too silly for me to quote my own published words "proving" that I do not hold such a view. Sack has also repeatedly made wild charges against me, such as the whopper that, over three years ago, I exposed the falsehoods of his book as part of some publishing plan for my recent book--as if one has anything to do with the other...
...that there is no proof of such a missile. NTSB experts say an optical illusion associated with a shooting flame from the initial spark may explain what he saw. Conspiracy theorists on the Internet and elsewhere, of course, know in their bones that the government is covering up a whopper of an explanation...
...Adams House, students in slinky cocktail dress populated the Upper Common Room for the house's annual Chocoholica event. Attendees dined on erotically shaped chocolate at the gourmet extravaganza, where the specialty of the night was the "Whopper...
...University, I wrote a weekly column called "Prank Files" for Fifteen Minutes (FM) magazine. As the name suggests, "Prank Files" was the record of prank calls I had made to various institutions at Harvard. For example, I called UHS claiming to have Mad Cow Disease from eating a Whopper; I called the Eliot superintendent and tried to get him to shut off the heater in my roommate's room because my roommate "always makes a mess and has poor circulation;" and I called the Bureau of Study Council to say I needed academic help, badly--I was taking a graduate...
DIED. JAMES WHITMAN MCLAMORE, 70, co-founder of Burger King, who helped develop the Whopper; of cancer; in Coral Gables, Florida...