Word: cribbing
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Important changes come so slowly that they are taken for granted. Children's sheets used to be all white; now they are explosions of color. The mobile over the crib, which first seemed arty and pretentious, has become almost a basic piece of furniture. The backpacks that were once associated with Indian women carrying papooses are now sold everywhere, not only as a convenience for mothers but as an opportunity for the baby to get out of the house and see the world...
...their colleagues for excitement during a summertime news lull and one of the less attractive residuals of Watergate afflicting too much of the press: the fear of underplaying-and being beaten on-a scandal. The decisiveness of Reagan's election victory made the possession of a debate crib sheet seem irrelevant to the outcome. Said House Speaker Tip O'Neill about Carter: "We had an extremely unpopular candidate who would have lost, debate or no debate, briefing book or no briefing book...
Called on by the teacher, the President recited Shakespeare to a summer-school class in Farragut, Tenn. "It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury," he read from a crib sheet, "signifying nothing." It was all part of Ronald Reagan's continuing crusade for stricter standards in the nation's schools, on a swing through Tennessee and New Mexico last week. In turn, his prospective Democratic rivals for the presidency charged that his speeches were mere sound and fury. "Everywhere he goes he's now a friend of education," scoffed Walter Mondale...
...review sections, they caution against spending too much time going over old crib sheets and blue books. The material, they say is so volatile that the questions may stay the same, but the answers change. A similar point applies to South African divestiture, whose viability and urgency has been dramatized by events both in and outside the University in the past few years. Which is why President Bok, in simply rehashing his 1979 open letter on the subject, fails to adequately justify his refusal to sell Harvard's tainted stock...
...dieter who became popcorn-addicted in 1980 was Actor Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy), who found in popcorn the answer to his craving for snacks. Klugman is spreading the good munch via Jack's Corn Crib, a planned chain that has already opened two outlets in Manhattan and expects to have at least 100 franchised cornporiums in business by 1985. Klugman uses no salt in his recipes and a maximum of 5% sugar. He has brisk competition in New York from Popcorn Paradise, which is adopting a movie-palace lobby decor on a moderate scale...