Word: yes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics agree that Wald, more than anything else, is a dedicated teacher who has the rare ability to present complex ideas on a sophisticated but understandable level. As with his science, Wald's teaching is not separated from his politics. In Natural Sciences 5. "The Nature of Living Things" (yes, he enjoys teaching undergraduates), Wald once burned a dollar bill during lecture and asked the class to explain his action on the final exam. During another lecture, Wald talked about a student in the course who had spent a considerable part of his spring reading period in a New Hampshire...
...hitting the ground in full gallop, is the candidate himself. So fast does he move that he is inside the store before the storekeeper can stir, blinking in the dimness and striding toward the storekeeper with his hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
...were to ask me if I would sell a used car to this man, the answer is yes," he added...
...Williams, 42, an ex-Stanford footballer who owns an executive search firm in San Francisco, describes a feeling that other runners will recognize (though speaking of it generally draws an "Uh, yes, that's very interesting" reaction from sedentary friends). Williams says, "I don't feel good until about a half-hour after I start jogging. Then the sense of fatigue is like a warm blanket. It's a good time to meditate. You run along feeling like you're the greatest thing. Nobody can touch...
...like my daughter to hear me saying this because I keep telling her that she must take her time about these things, but it happened very quickly," reminisced Princess Grace, who said yes to Prince Rainier after only a few dates. Actually Daughter Caroline, 20, has ears -and eyes-these days only for her beau, Philippe Junot, a boulevardier and sometime insurance broker who is descended from Napoleon's aide-de-camp, General Andoce Junot. The couple met a year ago and have been together ever since. Junot, 36, has even received the imprimatur of the palace: an invitation...