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...declared missing this week after disappearing during the blizzard. Kidman was last spotted as she attempted to scale a newly-formed snowdrift in her leopard print stilettos on her way back to Adams House. Friends fear that her heels became lodged in the snow as heels in snow are wont to do, leaving her stranded in the cold. Says Kidman’s inconsolable boyfriend, G. Male Hussell ’05, “She had fabulous jeans—I’ll really miss them...
...necessarily antifeminist—and they certainly didn’t see it that way. They saw it as their contribution to the community, as their part in the inter-town rivalry. “You just don’t get it,” my brother is wont to say of high school. “You never got it.” And looking at the feather boa on his pillow, I knew he was right...
...baby boomers. They were married (in 1964) and had two daughters (in 1966 and '69) as the grand social transformations of the 1960s were heating up. The responsibilities of a new family might have dissuaded them from joining the experiment of hippie culture, but that was not their wont in any case. "It was a time of great upheaval," remembers Celeste Colgan, a friend since the mid-'60s. "We talked about it a lot - Dick particularly. He was worried about the direction of the country. It was a tremendous wake-up call, and all of us got really serious really...
...walk and a double briefly shift Morris’ attention back to the television from the hypothetical situations where the mind of a statistics professor is wont to dwell. But as a J.D. Drew fly ball to centerfield leaves the runners stranded and the Cardinals scoreless in the first, Morris returns to his chart. Taking out a mechanical blue pencil and scientific calculator, Morris lays out the formula for the new all-in-one offensive statistic he has developed, Runs Per Game...
Roommates and friends of those involved in long-term relationships are wont to make amusing “married couple” jokes. As it turns out, these jokes might be justified, hormonally speaking...