Word: bottom
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...present Bicker system, by which the clubs pick the sophomores they want, perpetuates the hierarchy and the stereoyptes. Bottom clubs are forced to "top cut"--not give bids to campus big shots they know will opt for one of the top five (Cottage, Ivy, Cap and Gown, Colonial, and Tiger Inn). The top clubs are pretty well assured of getting the men they want, and during Bicker they send out their best members to get the desirable sophomores...
...everyone or nearly everyone gets in. Not so easily as Amory Blake, but they get in. Those who get into bottom clubs soon develop a rationale. One of them told me: "Of course, Dial isn't one of the top clubs, But you know, I wouldn't fit in Ivy or Cottage. I'm not that type. I feel comfortable where...
Kopecki had the fastest pin of the three, only 29 seconds into the second period. Ahead 3-2, but in the bottom position, he sat-out, turned in, and--on his knees--flipped Penn's Mike Hannon on to his back for an unstoppable...
...nice of the Queen to include Scottish Novelist (The Mandelbaum Gate) Muriel Spark, 45, on the New Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make...
...radio. "She's tramping [shaking]! She's tramping! She's going!" Bluebird's right pontoon lifted, then her nose; finally, the whole boat went airborne, looped over backward, slammed back into the water, and sank. Divers finally located Bluebird, split in two on the lake bottom 142 ft. below. At week's end they were still searching for Campbell's body...