Word: compound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they were looking for an opportunity to see their prose in print. Rape is a serious crime. That two Harvard Ph.D. candidates overlook this fact to have fun at a newspaper's expense--and at the expense of rape victims--is disheartening. That the editors of The Crimson should compound the affront with the famous headline, "Help Wanted?" is irresponsible. Michael C. Dorf...
...Deport Former Harvard Doctor/Rapist" (January 19, 1983). Several questions immediately sprang to mind. First, we were not aware that Harvard even had a position called "doctor/rapist." Does this represent a joint appointment as both a doctor and a rapist or is it one integral position with a compound tide? Second, now that the subject of your article has left this position, who has replaced him, or does the position remain vacant? What qualification are required for a doctor/rapist anyway? The Reagan Kim Schive Ph.D. students, Psychology and Social Relations
...after his announcement Kennedy seemed relieved and relaxed. He said he believes he could have won the 1984 race had he entered. "Politically," he argued, "everything had been moving the other way-toward a declaration of candidacy." Kennedy struggled with his choice at the fam ily's Hyannisport compound on Cape Cod over the Thanksgiving holiday. On that Friday, his administrative aide, Lawrence Horowitz, gave the family a three-hour presentation purporting to show how Kennedy could win in 1984. But the Kennedy children, unmoved by Horowitz's sophisticated research and strategies, objected emphatically to the effect...
...compound problems, Timerman, possibly because of his language problem, never realizes that Begin would almost certainly have won a strong majority had an election been held up at any time up until the massacre. The Lebanese invasion unquestionably did not have the unanimous consent of earlier conflicts. But Timerman mistakes a significant opposition for national disgust with the war and the government. His misunderstanding is startingly fundamental and stems from a profound and inexcusable ignorance of the physical and psychological toll the Palestinian terrorists have taken on Israel...
...Hungarian uprising. On Nov. 2, the day after Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy announced his government's intention to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact, Király was sent to the Soviet embassy to check out a protest from Andropov that "Hungarian hooligans" had besieged the diplomatic compound. In the growing tension, the Nagy government feared that the Soviets might use any incident to send in troops. When Király arrived with a security unit to be sure the Soviet embassy was not being besieged, he found everything strangely quiet. He banged on the heavy oak door...