Word: belled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speech on academic efficacy, Howard said the concept of "innate" intelligence--like the theory espoused in The Bell Curve, a controversial book at the center of recent nationwide debate--was mistaken and dangerous to personal development...
Lewis Carroll might have penned it thusly: "Oh, frabjous day! Calloo, callay! A third-period goal goes Harvard's way!" Even as the one short-term evil spirit was ushered away, though, the more important exorcism might have been performed on Konik, his two goals serving as bell, book and candle to his early-season slump...
...statistics were kept. In 1979 Cowboys quarterback Roger ("the Dodger") Staubach retired after four concussions in one season, and Jets receiver Al Toon hung up his cleats in 1992 after 10 career concussions. N.F.L. players even have their own concussion-related argot. Mild blows are known as dingers or bell ringers (because players usually have a ringing in their ears), and a player who has suffered a severe hit is said to have been "sent to dreamland...
...While concussions may be no more common than in the past, there is now a heightened awareness among team doctors, coaches and players (and their agents) that the injuries are often more serious than they seem. Says San Francisco 49ers quarterback Steve Young, who has had his bell rung several times: "People are realizing that nowadays, with players' size and velocity, the physics of some of the hits are taking a toll on people's heads." Medical experts warn that scientific knowledge of the long-term effects of even minor blows to the brain is sparse. Increasingly concerned, N.F.L. commissioner...
...ultimate hypocrisy for Martin to stand around and label The Bell Curve as pseudo-science when his own teachings and research are the essence of prejudice masquerading as scholarship...