Word: overheard
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...dining hall but two seats away from an intense conversation is good stuff. And, while we're on dining hall conversation topics, I'd also like to offer my appreciation for the folks who talk about really random stuff in really loud voices. The other day I overheard a very heated argument about the origin of the word pencil. Hmmm. That's great procrastinating trivia. I appreciate...
...with them. A video could be created consisting of a generic professor who complains (sotto voce) about the stupid administration, the moronic students, his awful colleagues and the fact that one of them is paid $100 more than he is; then he could wind up by telling what he overheard someone say to someone else about someone else. A video like that would mean...
...mature way and not lose control in front of your children? That might work for a family like Segal's, where all the children had gone to bed nicely by 8:30 p.m. the other night, when I phoned her. But considering the circumstances in my household--I overheard my husband telling Clementine that "words are like colors and swear words are fluorescent, so save them for when you want to make a big impression"--I cling to another bit of insight from Segal: "By the time children are six, they know what a curse means. She will be able...
...officials or federal marshals finally make a move to retrieve Elian. The New York Times reports that CBS is hard at work on an Elian miniseries (do they know something about the ending that we don't?) and multiple magazine and newspaper writers camped out in Miami have been overheard threatening to quit if the story doesn't end soon...
...clues. Once again, he laid the matter to rest. Guberman had a chance encounter with a couple of former Canaday F residents and asked them about the sins. They knew nothing of the subject. Enter Clint T. Kenley '03, a blockmate of Guberman. Kenley, a Montanan and hunter, overheard the conversation and was enticed by the mystery. After a tour of the discovered sins, Kenley "felt a strong connection with the perpetrator." Standing in the entryway, contemplating his freshly-acquired knowledge of the sins, he was suddenly drawn to the fire extinguisher. The extinguisher showed no directly apparent blemishes...