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...funking tests. The Times must have meant either that the test-takers "blew smoke upon" the test (a usage common in 1699) or that they "scared" it. Of these meanings the first seems the more probable, even though the early usage commonly conveyed the meaning "to blow smoke upon (a person)." Words change over the centuries and no doubt it is now possible to funk an inanamiate object. Other meanings of funk (from the Latin, fumigare) are "to smoke (a pipe) 1704," and hence, "to cause an offensive smell." We have also the noun meaning "a strong smell or stink...
...three untimely whisles blew against the Crimson in the next two minutes, Redmen Jim Maglisceau and Marty Van Leeuwen scored four points apiece which put the game...
...unwed pregnant girl. A student then protested that if Dr. Blaine thought that this was such an ultimate evil, why didn't the University clinic provide contraceptives on request? Dr. Blaine evaded the question. I thought this evasion was contemptible, his tears were crocodile tears, and I suppose I blew up and let him know it. I pointed out, too, that it was his ideas that made the situation more tragic than necessary; after all, Radcliffe girls were largely middle-class and their families could support the child. It was because of petty ideas that the girl was so disgraced...
...except in photographs. "Does the baby meet the family standards?" asked one proud West German mother. "Ja, schon," wept the grandmother. Although the West Berliners arrived laden with everything from Lebkuchen to long underwear, not all the gifts came from their side of the Wall. One East German lad blew a year's savings on two geese, a sweater and a bottle of brandy to welcome his long-immured relatives...
June is for brides and December for polar bears. But the couple had already been waiting for three years because everybody thought they were too young. So the wind blew, the temperature dropped to 23°, and Actor Brandon de Wilde, 21, who played in The Member of the Wedding at seven, and Manhattan Deb Susan Margot Maw, 18, got married anyway. Then they headed south for a warming honeymoon, which meant that Susan was leaving her studies at Bryn Mawr, to say nothing of the holiday ball at which she was scheduled to debut...