Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: located closer than Lampoon to Lamont...
...highly influential post of Ibis of the Harvard Lampoon, still cursing myself for failing to massage the buttocks of enough people to guarantee my presidency of the humor magazine, I was disturbed by the incessant noise of our galley-slave dragging his lead ball and chains ever closer to my door...
These people should assume a new animal name and build a house on top of their current final club. Into this higher house, they, but not other members of the final club, may enter. The new group could now party with peers who come even closer to the final club ideal than the original club members...
...year reign as coach. Knight began to unravel. He benched his starters, dismissed his leading rebounder and, in a nationally televised game, he flung a chair across the court to protest the officiating. John Feinstein, a canny Washington Post columnist, focuses on the following season, when Knight veered even closer to the edge. Feinstein has no quarrel with the coach's leadership qualities, but they were far outweighed by his aggressions. Throughout the season Knight reviles the Hoosiers, throws them out of practice sessions for being imperfect, then orders them back for further humiliation. It turns...
...into and perhaps even destroying the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty. It is the alleged "stunning success" of smart-rock experiments, rather than any progress on the laser and particle- beam zappers usually associated with Star Wars, that has prompted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to argue that "we are closer to being able to recommend deployment decisions...