Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fighting began during the question and answer session when Adam Arian, a student, approached Goldman and struck him, Goldman said yesterday, adding that the attack was unprovoked...
...Adam's Rib. Harkness Commons, Friday and Saturday...
...intersection turns out to be an entrance to Golden Gate Park. At sundown 40 people are crowded around a beat-up purple and white bus. Jeez, how will they all fit? Adam, a frizzy-haired, forlorn-looking grad student in an orange serape, says at least six passengers can bunk in the luggage racks. It begins to rain, and soon sleeping bags are turning to mush. There was no receipt for that $10 either. Will there be a seat? The woman was pretty evasive on the phone. All this secrecy, the whole scene, in fact, brings back college days...
...start falling asleep early. By flipping a few panels, the sofas and card table turn into more sleeping platforms. By 2 a.m. there are sleeping bags as far as the eye can see. As the passenger stumbles among them a voice hisses, "There is room here!" It's Adam. He whispers that he is a biologist from M.I.T. Maybe that explains the scrape. He was "designing an incurable virus," he says, when he realized what he was doing. He's been on the road for several weeks sorting things out. Daybreak and breakfast in Arizona. Sleeping bags...
...Adam Dixon continued his efforts to give coach Bill McCurdy an ulcer before the end of the season as the freshman standout waited until the last 100 yards before he passed three Army runners to grab first-place honors...