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...Board's warning in the publication was also unnecessary, and merely shows that its members are bent on intimidating political protesters and stifling free speech...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Growing Up | 10/1/1985 | See Source »

Larson would go home and write that "you could have mowed the grass with a push mower. Part of the left-field fence had blown down. The dugouts looked more like bus-stop shelters. The bleachers were rickety. And the wind had bent the light poles at rakish angles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Utica: the Dogpatch of Baseball | 9/23/1985 | See Source »

...syndrome is not a personality trait, not a row of haggard faces bent over Cabot Library tables that readily double as formica pillows. It is, experts say, a combination of medical school admission policies and pressures, embedded in certain beliefs among the medical community at large...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: What Makes a Premed | 9/18/1985 | See Source »

...reached the point where only in the case of an accident--a plane crash, a bridge collapse or something equally unexpected--can a reader be reasonably sure that the facts haven't been bent or tampered with in advance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Newswatch Maneuvers En Route to the Summit | 9/16/1985 | See Source »

...syndrome is not a personality trait, not a row of haggard faces bent over Cabot Library tables that readily double as formica pillows. It is, experts say, a combination of medical school admission policies and pressures, embedded in certain beliefs among the medical community at large...

Author: By J. ANDREW Mendelsohn, | Title: What Makes a Premed | 9/12/1985 | See Source »

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