Word: zebras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz, " I had been deceived by the legends of Ivy League education. One professor offered his faux-zebra hide couch for me to sit on. The other, more avuncular professor actually offered me a plate of donuts. My discussions with them, and with the other students in my interview time slots, did not provoke panic or even mild anxiety...
...maintain their still tentative connections. More controversially, many linguists believe that language skills unfold according to a strict, biologically defined timetable. Children, in their view, resemble certain species of birds that cannot master their song unless they hear it sung at an early age. In zebra finches the window for acquiring the appropriate song opens 25 to 30 days after hatching and shuts some 50 days later...
...more harmful goal occurred last season. With Harvard trailing by a goal and the netminder pulled for an extra attacker, the Crimson put the puck in the net with one second left. But the zebra waived that one off, too, as a Saint knocked the net off its mooring. The ref called neither a penalty nor a penalty shot...
...zebra tried to make up for the blown non-call 33:56 into the half when Wilmot was again hindered in the box, calling the penalty kick. Junior T.J. Carella, however, shot it right into the goalie, and junior Will Kohler fired the rebound into the side...
...girl. Also fun to watch is Wendy, Randy's married-woman girlfriend from Scene One. She is a key source on what's being worn in today's malls. You can try not to laugh as Fashion's Public Enemy #1 saunters by in a short red raincoat with zebra trim or green terrycloth short shorts balanced over lethal-weapon heels...