Word: ahoy
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...sure enough, as the pack of horses approaches the final turn, the Suffolk Downs audio system tells me that Land Ahoy and Two Mikes are running one and two--just as it says on my betting slip. As visions of expensive dinners and new compact discs course through my mind, my entire body clenches up and my heart rate quickens...
...keeping with the spirit of the day's "Ship Ahoy Cambridge" theme, Reeves dubbed Rudenstine the "captain of the good ship Harvard" and presented the president with a sailor...
While most Harvard students claim they shop CVS/pharmacy for its basics only, Adam Peek '98 claims their shoe polish caught his eye. Others frequent the store for food to stock their cupboards. A medium bag of Doritoes sells for $0.99, a package of Chips Ahoy for only $2.19, and, most importantly, your favorite box of animal crackers, string handle and all, for $0.99. For that special treat, all Pepperidge Farm Distinctive Cookies sell for under...
Companies have also withdrawn ads that might be deemed insensitive or inappropriate. RJR Nabisco dropped a print ad claiming that Chips Ahoy cookies are "richer than an OPEC nation." And NYNEX stopped airing a TV spot of a Marine Corps drill team dancing to rock-'n'-roll music...
Alexander Graham Bell thought the telephone should properly be answered by saying, "Hoy! Hoy!" -- an odd term from the Middle English that became the sailor's "ahoy!" and reflected Bell's sense that those speaking on early telephones were meeting like ships on a lonely and vast electronic sea. The world has now grown electronically dense, densest of all perhaps among the Japanese, who answer the phone with a crowded, tender, almost cuddling, quick- whispered mushi-mushi. The Russians say slushaiyu (I'm listening). The hipper Russians say allo. Italians say pronto (ready). The Chinese say wei, wei (with...