Word: bashes
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...Saturday night, as a toga party rocked inside the Currier Fishbowl, the 10-Man opened its doors--and private staircase--for its inaugural party of the year. The bash, all of its residents agree, was a definite success...
...during his recent trip to Latin America. In early May, Quayle road-tested some of his themes in a speech to a judicial conference. Back then he took pains to reassure his audience, "I'm an attorney; I'm also married to one -- so I don't want to bash lawyers." The Vice President abandoned these constraints last week, and an unlikely lawyer basher was born...
Beyond a distaste for excess, the reluctance of the Swiss to indulge in a splashy birthday bash also reflects a country increasingly ill at ease with itself. The questions raised go to the very foundations of what made Switzerland exceptional -- its status as an Alpine refuge protected from the wars and revolutions that have ravaged the rest of Europe through the centuries. The Swiss like to say they are less a nation than a conglomerate formed by disparate mountain people under pressure to defend themselves against outside threats -- from the Habsburgs and the Bourbons to Hitler...
...Committee members head out to launch their attack armed with the knowledge that this--like other intramural sports--is something every house wants to win. In fact, the winning house--Kirkland this year--gets an ice cream bash and a congratulatory advertisement in The Crimson...
...same organizations he had vowed to "run back to Highland Park where you came from." What's more, the invitations carried the name of House Speaker Tom Foley, who had professed to be "disturbed" by Savage's inflammatory campaign rhetoric. The Speaker didn't turn up at the bash, but a Foley spokesman confirms that he "supports all Democratic candidates...