Word: banging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly 90 days I have asked for the unexpurgated, non-rhetorical truth in this coup d'etat and have received little more than the stains on the underwear. My eyes are open. With every pore of my being I am visual. My voice may be diminished by the resounding bang of authority, but I call now upon the administration of this great university and upon every person who is committed to the advancement of education in the arts within this institution, regardless of whom their audience may be, to demand "Veritas" in this most disturbing matter. Do not again allow...
When a child of the 1950s was told that video phones and rocket packs were just around the corner, he believed all the giddy hype, desperately wanted every whiz-bang contraption, couldn't wait for the new technological dawn . . . and then waited, and waited, year after disappointing year, making do with aerosol cheese and pocket calculators and feeling finally that those Jetsons promises might never be fulfilled...
...knows when to shoot, when to bang the ball down low, and when to make the back door cut for an easy lay-up. Maher, quite simply, knows the game of basketball at its most basic level...
...play the part of the spoiler," sophomore Ann Kennon said, "If we beat Princeton [the Ivy League winner for the last ten years], we'll go out with a bang...
Written on a piece of paper or on a T shirt, the theory of everything would just lie there waiting for something else to breathe fire into it. The question of whether the universe is steady state or Big Bang, or whether it has 10 dimensions or four, is just decorative trim around the grand mystery of why anything or any law exists. But by reminding us of our deep cosmic ignorance, science, far from dulling the mystery of existence, sharpens it the way garlic wafting on the evening breeze whets your appetite. It reminds us that we dwell...