Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...SPAD: When I was doing Student Government one of the things that we always did was what we called Breakthroughs at football games. The football team would run through these sheets. It had these little cords that ran in front of it. One time these ropes had gotten crossed somehow. I was the one who was supposed to fix this. I was running back and forth in front of it and almost got killed by the football team. They had chosen the time that I was running in front of it to straighten out the cord...
...There are a lot of people who would like to buy respectability by giving a gift to the University," the administrator adds. "Are we somehow bestowing legitimacy on a bad source by accepting...
Geneticists worldwide took part in a celebration last week that was sure to rival any millennium bash, complete with the pop of the champagne, toasts to the past and the proclamation of resolutions for the coming years. To outsiders, it may have seemed that the labcoat-clad revelers had somehow confused the first of December with the first of January. But for those in the scientific community, there seemed a no more appropriate time to recognize the possibility that the elusive "promise" of the future might be tenable after...
...says, she wants to demonstrate her theory on a grander stage: in the shadow of the Giza pyramids outside Cairo, in what she envisions as the most notable kite flight since Ben Franklin's. In the meantime, Clemmons is taken with the idea that a hobbyist like herself might somehow scoop all the pyramid experts. "Other research expeditions had a bunch of men pushing and pulling," she says. "Mine will be me and my girlfriends with kites and a pack of beer, sitting in lawn chairs, waiting for the wind to kick...
These days, because the public is largely convinced that complete disclosure somehow precludes any nasty surprises down the road, we want desperately to believe that we can know everything about the people who are running for president. And we've also convinced ourselves that it's our indisputable right to uncover as much as we can. And in the current, vaguely McCarthy-esque era of the public "right to know," we can rest assured that someone like FDR - whose physical health was in sharp decline and whose marriage was tortured - will probably never again make it past the New Hampshire...