Word: bores
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eliot and Kirkland means less crowded conditions in some of the other Houses. Leverett House will exceed its optimal capacity by 20 students this year, but the House secretary called the situation a "significant improvement" over last year when there were 40 students too many. "Last year we bore the brunt of overcrowding," she said. "This year it seems to be more evenly spread around...
...commentator, suddenly stopped short the colloquy, looked down, and testily muttered, "Shut up." Moments later he paused and clonked something below. Left-wing kibitzers in the studio audience? No, Buckley's target was his King Charles spaniel Rowley, which he had brought to the studio. Showing that he bore no ill will, Rowley then jumped into Buckley's .lap and planted a slurpy kiss on his cheek. All of which left Hentoff with somewhat more of an interview than he had expected. Said the show's producer later, "You can hear barking on the tape...
...beyond that, the pickings were pretty dismal. The opening sequence, implicitly indicting the British for the whole problem, was too cute and facile. The time spent in Meah Shearim, the Jerusalem quarter of the ultra-orthodox, and in anti-Zionist Naturei Carta, was overlong and boring, chiefly because it had no point, despite the implied connection with a voice-over talking about the anti-godliness of early Zionism. And all the little shots of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem which so delighted me must have been a crashing bore for those in the audience who had never visited Israel. The photography...
...deep were these changes that both Warren and the "activist" court that bore his name inevitably became national issues. The far-reaching decisions on racial discrimination and individual rights, beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation ruling of 1954, were applauded by civil libertarians-and just as vigorously denounced by a variety of critics. Segregationists and John Birchers put up billboards demanding IMPEACH WARREN; religious traditionalists protested the court's 1962-63 bans on classroom prayers and urged the court to "put God back in the schools." Law-and-Order Candidate Richard Nixon invariably...
...pursuing at which time I was obligated to make an offer of proof. I had no intention to characterize where I was going at that point. My intention at that point was simply to ask the questions and to try to elicit information, and then if the information bore it out make a reference in my written brief to what we had alleged in our earlier presentation...