Word: asse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gods and goddesses in India's teeming pantheon of deities, perhaps none is more fearsome than Shitala. Mythology tells that the red-garbed goddess rides around the countryside on an ass in search of victims, scourging with stinging reeds those whom she finds. Her beatings cause the victims' skins to erupt in festering, angry pustules, their bodies to burn as if on fire. Shitala may be a myth, but her presence is all too real in India today: she is the goddess of small pox. In what some consider the worst epidemic of the century, the disease...
...ball game." Recently, he seemed ready to fire his present manager, Alvin Dark. "I'm playing to win!" he screamed at Dark after a game against the White Sox. "If you don't start playing aggressive baseball, I'll kick your [expletive deleted] ass out of here. We won two years without you, and we can win again without you." Those who overheard the explosion say that it was quintessential Finley...
College officials frankly find the dissident grads a headache ("A pain in the ass is probably closer," says one Stanford administrator). They resent the old grads' tendency to play fast and recklessly with the truth and to make a cause célèbre out of every campus incident. There is also a fear that the grads might sabotage alumni contributions...
...much amused to see that The Crimson has again lived up to its high standards of Harvard journalism. Recalling the labeling of the H-R Republicans as "punk-ass Republicans," we now see The Crimson taking it upon itself to recommend that Mr. Richardson's invitation to speak on Class Day be withdrawn [Editorial, May 14]. That The Crimson should strain all bounds of common courtesy and decency in suggesting the withdrawal of an invitation (no matter to whom it was extended) reminds me of a very similar situation a few short months ago with the rescinding of the invitation...
...Take a hard line ... Anything on that they better watch their damned cotton picking faces. Because boy, if there's one thing in this case as Henry will tell you, since March 21st when I had that conversation with Dean, I have broken my ass to try to get the facts of this case...