Word: brush
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clubs the "last socially acceptable group to discriminate against," dismissing Epps' report as, "whiny, patently self-serving, smug and patronizing," and noting that the formation of the clubs reflects "Harvard's [failure]...to provide places for undergraduates to go where people can have as much fun." Content to brush off revelations of sexual harassment and drug dealing by blaming Harvard's social life, Sears has even more gall than we would have expected...
...science. That helps explain how Greenspan could see the stock market as irrationally inflated in December but be less concerned today, even though stocks continue to rise. Like Picasso, he might be into a new phase. But it's a sure bet that the Fed's brush will miss the canvas at some point. Why? Even basic economic readings are hotly debated. There are no guideposts. And that gets me back to what economists don't know...
Weil's first brush with demi-fame came in 1962, when he was an undergraduate at Harvard. Writing for the Harvard Crimson, he fell into an unlikely assignment: poke around the psychology department and investigate rumors that students and professors there were openly experimenting with illegal drugs. The substance of choice was the so far little-known hallucinogen LSD. The professors providing it were the so far little-known Richard Alpert and Timothy Leary...
Huling hadn't finished burning the Minutemen. After senior Bart Brush loaded the bases in relief of Wells with two outs in the top of the sixth, Huling came on to face UMass cleanup hitter Doug Clark. Huling worked across two strikes, then got Clark to ground out down the first-base line...
...service in Terrence McNally's Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. The title characters use speech, sex, food and music in their sometimes earnest, sometimes weary efforts to make that connection. The sex is fun, but it's not the point. Frankie and Johnny want someone to brush their teeth with in the morning...