Word: barroomful
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...after feminists at several Boston area campuses, Harvard included staged "Take Back the Night" marches protesting rape and other violence against women. These matches were staged in support of a march at Brandeis University. Where there have been more then half a dozen rapes in the past year. The barroom rape in New Bedford is bringing a lot of media attention to the problem, but the frightening incidence of rape in this area should have been getting attention for a long time...
...seen the uproar will die down it always has in the past. And meanwhile attendance wil keep dropping at women's marches posters wil keep featuring degrading "teasers" to titillate ticket buyers and men will continue to rape women quietly perhaps in dark alleys--not with a cheering barroom audience but with a silent and much larger one. --March...
...hunting while cuddling a baby fox. His deputy, Denis Healey, 65, was just as busy. In York he sat down at a piano to play a funeral march-"to remind everyone where Thatcher is taking us"-and then took up the chorus of an old American barroom tune, Hard Hearted Hannah, "a girl from Savannah who pours water on a drowning man." Quipped Healey: "That is just what she is doing to the British economy...
...history. The 30 essays range from a humorous discourse on the shrinking size of the Hershey bar to the woeful tale of male anglerfish that attach themselves for life to a female of the species and become little more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies of some of the founding fathers of geology and paleontology, including Nicolaus Steno, James Hutton and Louis Agassiz. He even takes time...
...score 200 or better, rate yourself a baseball expert and show up for this paper's sports comp next fall. Scoring 150-200 means you can hold your own in any barroom argument, about 100 makes you a fun person to watch at game with and 50 or better shows that you probably don't frustrate your date too often...