Word: worded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finalists said they were surprised or excited to hear the news over the weekend. A sign announcing the finalists was posted outside Wadsworth House in Radcliffe Yard; most finalists heard by word of mouth...
...didn't get publicized particularly well in the Houses," Hawkins said. "I don't think we did a great job getting the word...
...very young when I first heard the word communist. The 13th Dalai Lama had left a testament that I read. Also, some of the monks who were helping my studies had been in monasteries with Mongolians. They had talked about the destruction that had taken place since the communists came to Mongolia. We did not know anything about Marxist ideology. But we all feared destruction and thought of communists with terror. It was only when I went to China in 1954-55 that I actually studied Marxist ideology and learned the history of the Chinese revolution. Once I understood Marxism...
...Frank McCourt couldn't leave swell enough alone and retire as a memoirist after his stupendous success with Angela's Ashes. Unfortunately, the promise of a sequel is given pretty firmly in the pages of his Pulitzer-prizewinning best seller, and McCourt proves to be as good as his word. The dream of coming to America, particularly to New York City, that sustained him through his family's poverty in Limerick has come to pass by the opening pages of 'Tis (Scribner; 367 pages; $26). In the fall of 1959, at age 19, McCourt enjoys his first shower...
...season opener, a character calls her Salvadoran maid a "tamale" (NBC replaced the word with "honey...