Word: bashli
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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...
...flatbed truck pulls up with a precious cargo of cigarettes. As two men begin unloading, the impatient shoppers surge forward. There is a resounding whack. A young policeman, standing in the truck, hits his billy club against the wooden side panel in warning. "He probably would like to bash a few heads," mutters a middle-aged woman watching resignedly from the sidewalk. "What torture they put us through...
...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...