Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...practice, you usually rely on personal experience when you're out in the field. As a senior, it is my sacred duty to hand this wisdom off to the youngfolk; so now I shall list every pertinent lecture hall in the order of most to least sleepable...
...city. I had been lamenting my lack of zest for exploration to my mother on the phone the night before, and the cab ride solidified in my mind how embarrassed I was not to have gotten to know the city after all these years. My mother, though, in her wisdom, had suggested I try to combat this problem by stopping by the Kennedy library and museum after the test, which was right on the campus...
...wisdom of opening the tunnel was called into question by no less than Netanyahu's Defense Minister, Yitzhak Mordechai, a retired general who allowed that he couldn't say "with finality that...all considerations were taken into account." The army chief of staff, Lieut. General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, said he had not been consulted. And Ami Ayalon, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence agency, said his recommendation that the opening be paired with a concession to the Palestinians was ignored...
...allowed on her plane. What's more, she's rarely at her husband's side. And when she is, she almost never makes any remarks. The campaign says that Elizabeth will be seen more--this week she's on the Tonight Show--but the established routine will hold. Conventional wisdom says First Ladies don't impact elections. But it doesn't make sense for the campaign to turn its popular steel magnolia into a wallflower...
...either group, sections are a dream come true. For those in the first category, sections are a smaller forum in which your words of wisdom may be heard. Others may benefit from the insight you possess. There you are, the youngest in the room, but you feel sure that the other students and the teaching fellow (TF) are excited about your monopolizing section discussion. Sections give you positive reinforcement--look at you, only a first-year, and already you're participating in class...