Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Vaux will also show films of various dialects and even bring in native speakers. And there are no papers and no exams--just a midterm project on your own dialect and a final project on your own dialect and a final project on a native Bostonian's speaking style...
...presidential race just doesn't interest you, remember that in the words of the late House Speaker and Bostonian Thomas "Tip" O'Neill Jr., "all politics is local." If you don't have the energy or desire to get an absentee ballot for your home state, we have one of the hottest Senate races in the country right here in Massachusetts. Junior Senator John Kerry is having a tough time with challenger and Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld '66. To this point, the campaigns have been marked by heavy advertising on Weld's side with only recent rebuttals from...
...very first race in the 1896 Athens Olympics was a preliminary heat of the 100. The eventual winner of the race was a Bostonian named Thomas Burke, who after winning the final in 12.0 sec. went on to become a lawyer and a journalist; he was also the official starter for the first Boston Marathon in 1897. Americans have long dominated the event, winning 14 of 22 Olympic 100s, finishing one-two seven times and sweeping the medals twice. Interestingly enough, three of the first seven winners acquired law degrees, including Abrahams, the Brit whose 1924 race against anti-Semitism...
...return the women to their "proper" place. The Harvard men surround themselves with flocks of women, not only Harvard women, but women from all over the Boston area. In one fell swoop, the individuality we have struggled so hard to attain is enveloped in a great migration of Bostonian women...
...communication honest? Cyberspace is filled with dissemblers who mask their age and even their sex, usually to enjoy, or avoid, the attention showered on women in chat rooms and bulletin boards. A 43-year-old Bostonian who thought he was having a hot fling with a 23-year-old woman discovered to his dismay that "she" was an 80-year-old man in a Miami nursing home...