Word: occasional
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell said, "The turning down of two or three people was a very traumatic and divisive happening. It's not the natural order of things here. So an occasion when two people gain unanimous support across ideological lines is a particularly welcome event after...
Letterman used the occasion to get a cheap laugh. "Take a look at the band," he told the audience. "Now you tell me which one's the Republican." That wasn't too hard, given that Atwater was the only one wearing a three-piece, navy blue suit.
--Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57, on the occasion of Lamont Library's 40th birthday.
Fang Lizhi was not exactly a household name outside China until he was invited to dine with President George Bush. Then a series of missteps turned a social occasion into a diplomatic cause celebre. Using crude police muscle, the Chinese government physically barred Fang, China's most famous dissident, from...
Lottman warns readers in his preface that, "the biographer of a seminal figure such as Gustave Flaubert may on occasion appear to resemble a newspaper editor handling a story."