Word: briars
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Condescending Ptlronage. Women's colleges are having their own second thoughts about going coed. Last month Mount Holyoke joined such other notable girls' schools as Wellesley, Smith, Sweet Briar and Wells in deciding to admit men only on a strictly limited basis. Feminism is partly the explanation...
Although they do not live the myth, welfare clients ironically share a belief in it. In a study by Dr. Scott Briar, professor in the school of social welfare at Berkeley, nearly half of a sampling of recipients thought that cheating was much more frequent than it is, 58% thought that many people stayed on welfare too long, and most thought that welfare departments had a right to check on clients and end aid if they found improprieties such as unreported income. Said Briar: "Welfare clients in general share the mores of the wider middle-class society about work...
...cuts a figure that is every bit as dashing as his style of command. In addition to his trademark camouflage jungle suit, Tri's combat regalia usually include a black three-starred baseball cap, a snub-nosed Smith & Wesson .38 in a shoulder holster, a leather-covered briar pipe, and a swagger stick carried under the arm. "I use it to spank the Viet Cong," Tri says with a wide grin...
...know how to train a mule?" drawls pistol-toting Editor Dan Hicks Jr. between drags on a dead briar pipe. "First you got to hit him over the head with a two-by-four to get his attention. That's what I did to Madisonville. Now they know I'm here and won't go away. As long as I've got a typewriter and a piece of paper, they can't put me out of business...