Word: gladding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Gibbs wrote that two years ago we lost our belief that "our world was safe." I'm glad she felt safe and secure before 9/11, but I didn't. After the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, I believed it was only a matter of time before terrorists, either foreign or American, would be successful in New York City. FRED RUECKHER New York City...
...journey in the name of a political cause. This is not her first time at the University, though. When she was 17 years old, Haddock worked at Harvard Business School as the blue-uniformed girl checking meal cards for the male students. “I’m glad to be back at Harvard, especially because it’s not at the Harvard Business School,” she quipped, drawing laughter from the audience...
...have been the only explanation for the presence of the two gentlemen sunbathers (Trey Burvant and Robert Olinger), clowns who perform extremely broad and pointedly irrelevant routines, which include dancing, reciting poetry, acting as extras, pouring water on each other, harassing the protagonists and telling audience members to be glad that life isn’t worse than it is. They are on stage for about half the play, and yet they have nothing to do with the it; their only function is comic relief. At best, they are superfluous and occasionally annoying, but when the action becomes serious, their...
...honest, I’m kind of glad,” she adds, noting that the low ceilings in the bar cause heavy buildup of smoke...
...commercial jets for a couple of years, as I had previously hoped.) Obviously, there is nothing wrong with being undecided. I was never one of those students who visualized Harvard as a brief stop between their National Merit Scholarships and Goldman Sachs —and I am very glad of that. Of course, in many ways I envy those people’s certainty and sense of purpose. Still, while some students will continue to bomb along the interstates on the life map they drew up long ago, the rest of us will meander along smaller roads, hoping...