Word: smalling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...hours, a small crowd gathered outside the dormitory as MIT officers and engineers secured the scene...
...same speech a hundred times, it's difficult to focus on what a candidate is saying. George Bush solved that problem by making each speech a fascinating opportunity for new language pileups. Some greatest hits: "I know how hard it is to put food on your family"; "I understand small-business growth. I was one"; "The most important job is not to be Governor, or first lady in my case." But the fun wasn't just limited to subject-verb mangling. More exciting still was his style. Occasionally he walked the stage hunched like a gunfighter, arms poised to pull...
Redoubtable First Lady Dolley Madison had watched for the progress of the British marauders through White House windows with a small telescope. When she saw the smoke from the fire at the Capitol, she ordered the Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington cut from its frame and rolled up, put in a cart with other valuables and trundled off to Virginia. That is the image of Dolley Madison that lives on in history. But in the immediate aftermath of the sack of Washington, the press vilified both her and her husband for cowardice even as the new nation experienced...
...That is no small tribute. Kacyvenski, who now plays for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, graduated from Harvard as the school's all-time leading tackler and the first player to start all 40 games of a Crimson football career...
...Small caf tables and chairs are placed on the set to create the ambiance of a dance hall and to allow audience members to become a part of the production itself. Augustine and Walsh also introduce the use of two clowns, played by Thomas Odell '04 and Sophia Chang '01-dressed in fantastic costumes of over-sized shoes, tutus and striped stockings-who carry large signs with messages such as "The First Kiss." These signs aided the transitions of the musical, while the whimsy of their bearers keeps them from being perceived as simple plot devices...