Word: proffer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hamburger haircut does sound rather unpleasant. But advice from a hairstylist sounds downright dangerous for a Home Towner like myself. Barbers I've met always talk weather and sports; they don't proffer advise. We Home Towners take our advice from the Home Town tarot readers...
...proffer your post to your good friend Steve Singer...
ANNIVERSARIES tend to evoke the Hallmark in us all. We cannot help but proffer our pithy congratulations. Our sentiments belie our instincts in such events. But sometimes that sentiment happily marries itself with sincerity, as is the case in Lowell House Opera's 50th anniversary production of The Merry Wives of Windsor...
Bell is searching for a "theology of litigation" less concerned with victory in individual cases than with the morality of the arguments which civil rights lawyers proffer in public. His argument is that Blacks need to define as sacred the American legal system and turn its courtrooms into a forum for Black religion to voice itself. In this way the Constitution, a document initially designed to protect slavery and since used to legitimize Black oppression, could be redefined as an instrument of liberation...
...moderate changes in eating habits, often recommending "grazing," or eating many small meals throughout the day. It can take a year "to change people's ways of thinking and behaving in regard to eating," says Sherry Siegel, founder of a Chicago weight-consulting firm. There are also those who proffer unorthodox advice, like Oz Garcia, a successful, self-taught New York City nutritionist who decides what clients should eat after he has analyzed their hair. "I was a walking penny," says Amy Greene, 54, a makeup consultant at the chic Henri Bendel store. Garcia found that her hair...