Word: craps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first paintings, which carried the motto "Greed is not a virtue," were meant to counterbalance the obsessive drive for money which he felt had overtaken the country. "It was a gentle rebuke to all that crap," he says...
...system has a more insidious effect beyond making cheating like a crap shoot in which you win (steal the answer) or lose (get caught). It creates a situation in which the cheater is not committing a crime again his next-desk neighbor, but against a group of obnoxious people who bump his chair while he is trying to write his essay. It's not that proctors aren't nice people--and it is good that someone will do the task--but they really shouldn't have any effect on someone's decision to cheat or not. A student should have...
Garfield Takes a Crap, by Jim Davis. The next in the seemingly never-ending series of books about cats, cartoon characters, things that eat a lot, or all of the above. In this novella, Garfield finally has to clean himself of all the food he has eaten over the last nine years. Scatological is the word...
Nixon always brusquely refused to discuss himself, his character, his emotions. In a 1983 interview, his onetime aide Frank Gannon asked Nixon, "Do you consider that you've had a good life?" Nixon replied, "I don't get into that kind of crap." Gary Hart doesn't either...
...been on the battlefront for Israel too long for anyone to throw that crap at us." That was the reaction of Hyman Bookbinder, 71, a longtime leader of the American Jewish Committee, to Israeli criticism of U.S. Jewish leaders in the wake of the painful case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, 32; the American intelligence analyst was sentenced to life imprisonment earlier this month as an Israeli spy. Few could remember a previous dispute that had produced such tension between Israel and its closest friends in the U.S. But then, as Morris Abram, chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major...