Word: chafed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students." But the brains behind the tanned, healthy faces are getting sharper than the curriculum, which needs revision to fit them. The untaxing overseas courses, for example, are often labeled "inane." Humanities need to be put on a par with science. Stanford's new boys and girls also chafe at Stanford's quaint old ways. Liquor is banned and so is "partisan politics," which means that Nixon and Brown can speak on campus, but their supporters cannot...
...underclothes every day. It doesn't get them clean, but it keeps the smell out." "That's important," said the general with approval. "Always keep the clothes next to your body clean. When you're moving fast, that's what slows you down-rash and chafe...
Dudley House: Seaman P Malin, William H. Chafe, Brian L. Villa, Ernest C. Black, Arnold L. Rosenberg, Robert C. Twombly, Gregory G. Tallas...
...delighted Bedouin maidens, thus delighting their powerful tribal fathers as well. Since he is allowed only four official wives by the Koran, the King scrupulously divorced one old wife before each new marriage, pensioning her off at $2,500 a month. Such heavy alimony payments made the King chafe all the more at his Feisal-imposed personal budget of only $30 million a year...
Very little happens in The Black Book; it is all murk and manifesto. One meets a menagerie of physical and spiritual cripples-Tarquin, a homosexual; Lobo, a whoremonger; Clare, a gigolo; Gregory, a poet whose feelings chafe against a talent one size too small. These tortured grotesques are insignificant, but they prefigure the Alexandria novels. So does the fetid brilliance of the passages in which