Word: sights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Four secretaries working in the reception area became noticably agitated upon sight of the Crimson team seated comfortably before them reading the morning paper. The secretaries began whispering amongst themselves, and one of them scurried off down a corridor...
...wanders to the other car, out of which hangs a "badly broken" man. The sight is gruesome; blood bubbles out of the man's mouth and he will be dead soon. "I knew that, but he didn't, and therefore I looked down into the great pity of this person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real...
...ordinary formal, this. The experience began as my companion and I came in sight of the Eliot tower, shining brilliantly under a bright and extensive collection of flood lights--which must also make for an equally impressive electric bill. (This is my theory on Eliot's traditionally dreary Green Cup performance. After all, this is the house which protested the abolition of paper cups in the dining hall...
...steady stream of proposals and counter-proposals have trickled out. The Date Rape Task Force defines date rape as intercourse without 'expressed consent.' The Undergraduate Council defines it as intercourse 'despite expressed unwillingness.' Jewett has proposed a compromise definition. Resolution of this volatile issue may be in sight, which begs the question, Task Force's definition which Jewett and the Ad Board scuttled in November, left for law school last week...
...real) author Aharon Appelfeld. (This exchange was actually published by the New York Times in February 1988.) He also drops in on the trial of John Ivan Demjanjuk, the Cleveland autoworker accused of being the infamous Ivan the Terrible at the Treblinka death camp . When he first catches sight of the man who either did or did not commit atrocious crimes, Roth muses, "So there he was. Or wasn...