Word: cancellous
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These epithets tend to cancel one another out, as they usually do and one's better impulse is not to get into the mud with these guys. But I have watched this band of movement-wrecking, non-sense-spouting dictators disrupt the left at Harvard for four years now, and I know how destructive their infantile disorder...
Stacey D. Modell, president of the undergraduate School's Committee, says that Giamatti managed to find time to attend an Early Action Day luncheon, even after his secretary had called to cancel. "My faith [in Giamatti] was restored," she says...
...Reagan by itself, no matter how trenchant, is a notably weak weapon against Falwell-style zealotry. What did the askers of all those snappy questions Monday night expect Falwell to do? Was he supposed to say "Hey, you're right, I guess gays really are okay after all," and cancel his TV show...
...against the "arbitrary nature" of the expulsions. Though Moscow told a British diplomat and a newsman to leave, it took no immediate retaliatory action against France. Trade reprisals seemed improbable, since France already has a worsening trade deficit with the Soviet Union. Nor was it likely that Moscow would cancel imports of French machinery needed for the Soviet natural-gas pipeline project to Western Europe. The Soviets undoubtedly will find ways to make their displeasure felt, but experts do not expect anything much more serious. In Washington, London and Bonn, meanwhile, Mitterrand's challenge to the Soviet espionage buildup...
...reason, they speculated, could be Pope John Paul II's scheduled mid-June visit to Warsaw. Some specialists have said Walesa may fear that a trip to the United States could disrupt the Pope's plans, possibly by creating such a volatile atmosphere in Poland that authorities there would cancel the pontiff's visit...