Word: tail-end
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...hope you enjoy a tail-end of the year...
...discussing her days as an undergraduate, Mackay-Smith described "a different era, the tail-end of the Vietnam war, during a lot of political activism...
...sort of carnival barker's patter, or they were consciously, and cunningly, manipulating a friendly overture into a "sale." This kind of superficiality is nauseating even in vacuum salesmen. A religious faith should be an unadorned conviction to be candidly and sincerely shared; it should not be the tail-end proposition of a maze of small-talk...
MARBLE has, however, affected their sleep schedule. "I can only go to sleep when it's light out," Elvy claims. When pressed to give a realistic schedule, they admit to missing most of their classes and usually catching the tail-end of lunch each day. "About 10 till two each day, I say to Elvy, 'Marc, we have to get up. We have to make lunch...
Westside was founded at the tail-end of the last major movement for educational change School reform is, in 1985, again an issue of concern to parents and politicians, but the emphasis is completely different. Where educational theorists in the 1960s sought: to tree the student from the bounds that allegedly shackled tree though in the public schools, today's reformers seek a return to what they think schools were in the Good Old Days places where dedicated and respected teachers rigorously taught the traditional disciplines to eager and obedient pupils From California Supt of Public Instruction Bill Hong...