Word: christening
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...Kneerim found out what happened if you took liberties. One night, she recalls, a Harvard friend drove up to the Quad in his brand-new MG. Kneerim and her friends sat around drinking champagne to christen the car, while the dorm's housemother peered through the window at them...
After 34 years of ceremonial teas and dinners, the Lowell House guest book accepted its last entry this fall and retired to the University archives. While Lowell plans to christen a new volume later this year, the original book's frayed edges and tattered pages contain a timeless record of visits by the famous and imminently famous...
...careful and scientific in their selections. Ford polled 600 consumers in shopping malls to help choose Tempo and Topaz to evoke the right image for its new compact models. The company rejected nominees like Coventry, Serval and Majestic. NameLab, a San Francisco firm, employed a computer to help christen Nissan's new Sentra. The coined word derives from sentry, which implies protection, and central, which suggests moderation...
From the moment he heard the Phillies would be helping the Minnesota Twins christen their new ballpark this spring, Pete wanted the first baseball hit safely in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is rolling around in his dresser drawer now. "I might as well get them all," says Rose of the souvenir balls that have marked his trail like Hansel's breadcrumbs. "Soon I'll have made more outs than anybody, and I want that baseball...
...stuffed lion that was the flying partner-when it was alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon; President Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover...