Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...waited in the South Station bus terminal for the Peter Pan bus to get going. On this trip to discover what the life of a management consultant was like, I was quickly discovering what it was not. I rode in a bus for four hours in front of a man singing the same four bars of a song over and over again. I wondered whether this adventure was a good idea. The bus delivered me to New York's Port Authority with just enough time to change into more respectable clothing in the definitely proletarian bathroom. I hailed...
Marvin pointed to the rendering, as well as a painting of the Glee Club's first conductor, Archibald T. Davison, and a statue given to the Glee Club on its European tour in 1921, a trip which made the Glee Club the first American college chorus to complete an international tour, as symbols of the college's musical history...
...convincing enough that we're willing to buy Jewel tickets, or dig a fallout shelter, or buy a round trip to Tahiti. Bad math notwithstanding, Americans are remarkably blase about Y2K. "Sarah, Plain & Tall," whooped "Y2K: The Movie" before Thanksgiving. Millennium-themed advertisements are almost universally regarded as lame. And even as Y2K computer problems are beginning to surface--people in Philadelphia have been getting jury notices for service in February 1900--there's not much excitement over the impending milestone...
...talked about all that transpired after he rose from his slumber, and he showed me pictures of himself and Texas A&M junior Jerry Self of Arlington, Texas, one of those lost that morning. We looked at the squadron on a trip to the State Capitol and at a military parade in College Station. Chris even had his arm around Jerry in a picture or two. Jerry was not assigned to work that night, but he volunteered to build long into the morning...
That rafting trip down the Colorado River you were planning? Scratch it. According to a group called the World Water Commission for the 21st Century, more than half the world?s major rivers, including the Colorado, are drying up or oozing with pollution. The commission, supported by the United Nations and the World Bank, is looking for ways to safeguard water supplies for the next century - and it looks like they?ve got their work cut out for them. Although the full findings are under wraps until March, a grim summary of the study, released Monday in Washington, D.C., gives...