Word: cowed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact at Yale, usually considered the campus most similar to Harvard's, the College Council handles a meager budget with the $32 mandatory activities fee going directly to a student's residential college. Says senior Jeffrey Porzan, the council's former chairman: "The residential colleges are sacred cow. If you have anything that would take away from the dignity or prestige of them, they'd get vetoed...
Teammate Steve Baker calls golf "a nasty combination of concentration and physical ability." Baker, who began playing golf on a converted cow pasture renamed Rolling Acres near his New London. Ohio, hometown, thinks the demands on a Harvard golfer make it less than idyllic. Carrying your own clubs, which can weigh 30 pounds or more, for 18 to 36 holes is a "mini-marathon," for anyone he says. The team doesn't ride around in golf carts sipping martinis between tees. They also play in adverse conditions. "At home," Baker remarks, "you wouldn't think of going...
...will catch a glimpse of the fox and then considers what an ordeal solitude actually is, despite its perverse and mostly pseudo-intellectual glamour. Then he considers the differences of life in the city and the country (it is not exactly that life is slow but that "a cow is finally just a cow, a chore is after all a chore, there is small possibility of what is called in the city 'advancement.'... [and] if you keep putting some of them off, you may get away with having to do fewer of them in the end"), the habits...
Your article "Fat on the Sacred Cow" [Feb. 22] said the B-l bomber will be an integral part of America's strategic deterrent only until it is replaced by the Stealth Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB). In fact, there are no plans to replace the B-l with the ATB. Instead, the Bl, ATB and large numbers of cruise missiles will all be used together...
...called "positively feudal." To some, this all seems a charming escape from the stresses and conflicts of the outside world. People born on the island proudly call themselves "kelpers," for the seaweed that grows thickly offshore. Visitors relish the fact that the milkman arrives at the door with his cow and then produces just enough milk to fill a bottle. Or that the big social event of the year is a week-long series of sheep-dog trials, sheep-shearing contests, horse races and other bucolic competitions. Or that the only telephone line is a single strand on which...