Word: bent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Temperence Hill seemed even further off form after the Withers. He ambled home fifth, eleven lengths behind the leader, in the Pennsylvania Derby. The colt had come in third in his last outing, a simple allowance race. It was hardly a flashy showing-or classy company-for a colt bent on winning the most difficult of the Triple Crown classics. Not surprisingly, Temperence Hill went off at 50-to-l odds. But the Belmont, with its withering distance of 1½ miles and its deep, fatiguing track-compounded this day by a rain that turned the surface...
...truck driver and a government worker who died when her only son was ten, William ("Smokey") Robinson was a kid who spent his candy money on music books but figured that the future would be brighter if he followed a more practical bent. He thought about dentistry, considered electrical engineering, "but between high school and college I met Berry Gordy." Smokey and four cronies from Detroit's North End-Warren Pete Moore, Bobby Rogers, Ron White and Claudette Rogers-formed the Miracles, and Smokey left college during the first semester. The name of the debut Miracles single could have...
...chairwoman of the A.P.A.'s ethics committee, Patricia Keith-Spiegel, acknowledges that radio psychologists are technically in violation of the association's code, but she argues that the code should be bent to accommodate the new trend. Says she: "My hunch is that they will double or triple in number within the next year or two. We don't want them to say, 'Either I'm going to be a star or a member of the A.P.A.' " In any case, as long as radio shrinks give only chatty-type advice rather than formal diagnoses...
...rides a unicycle and launches himself from a trampoline to a small balcony, besides singing and dancing. But dynamic versatility merely taps Dale's appeal. He is a born charmer with an infectious grin who never gives a self-serving performance. Every bouncing inch of his body is bent on pleasing the audience...
Although Badini says he didn't enter the department expecting a more clinical bent, he adds he has been disappointed in many of the department's courses. "A lot of the middle-level courses overlapped the introductory courses," he says. Lee C. Rubin '81, a concentrator, echoes this complaint. "The redundancy of the courses surprised me," she says, adding. "The basic concepts keep popping up in advanced courses, so that the surprise and wonder of each new course is minimized." Badini, a member of the department's Committee on Undergraduate Instruction, says the committee is presently working on reorganizing courses...