Word: cancellous
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...rich supporter rewrote his will to cancel a $1 million bequest; a school official received a hate letter addressed "Dear Communist Pimp." The reason? A black-studies director at Claremont Colleges near Los Angeles had hired Communist Angela Davis as a part-time lecturer. Said Davis, back in a classroom for the first time since U.C.L.A. fired her in 1970: "All I was interested in was teaching a nice, small, quiet seminar. I really didn't want it to become a carnival-type situation." So as soon as she got through her first class...
...latter, upon returning to Cambridge following winter vacation, contacted Watson and told him that he might as well cancel the hockey season if Cleary remained on as coach. Watson then called the Nova Scotia Voyageurs in hopes of replacing the players, but the Voyageurs had made a previous commitment to substitute for Cornell this year, so out went Cleary...
...numerous and vehement critics, who judge a faster increase necessary to meet the needs of a growing economy. Recently, for instance, some Congressmen accused Burns of trying in effect to repeal the tax cuts legislated by Congress this year, by increasing the money supply so slowly as to cancel out their expansionary impact. If the Federal Reserve at least puts out enough money to keep interest rates stable, it will ease one of the worst fears dogging the recovery...
...recurring back problem which flared up last week has caused Barrington J. Moore Jr., senior lecturer on Sociology and Senior Research Fellow of the Harvard Russian Research Center to cancel his fall term courses, his secretary said Wednesday...
...middle-class American parent may have spent 15 or more years to jockey himself into a position to provide a particular home and home territory for himself and for his children. Why try, if the Government can arbitrarily cancel...