Word: daub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peter Daub '77, a Leverett House resident, fractured his leg and lost three teeth when a car that was unable to stop on the rain-slickened pavement struck...
...hands were steady. He often gestured, sometimes smacking one fist into his other palm. Twice he had coughing bouts and picked up small squares of gauze to daub his lips. He used no notes, charts or maps and talked through the entire hour and 50 minutes. He was informed and up to date, moving the discussion through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He dwelt on the major forces at work, the people and events, his concern about the Soviet Union. If his mouth would not always obey his commands, the Americans detected nothing wrong with his mind...
Every once in a while (schedules are not rigid in the South Pacific), the natives of Tanna island daub their chests with red paint to spell out the letters U.S.A. Then, equipped with bamboo poles to symbolize rifles, they march down to the shores of the Pacific to await the arrival of John Frum. This godlike figure, whose origin is shrouded in mystery, is a legendary black cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is expected to reappear from the surf some day with all the Jeeps and chewing gum and other marvels that G.I.s brought to the New Hebrides during...
Then a second quirk of nature suggested another method. Like cats, vampires lick themselves to clean their reddish-brown fur, and they are as clubby as monkeys, eagerly grooming each other. One researcher reasoned that it would be effective to catch a few vampires, daub them with diphenadione, then release them to return home and bleed to death-and incidentally poison their grooming partners...
...choose between God and mammon. Yet they badger businessmen to support them with handouts of money and supplies, while raging against a sinful America and proclaiming its-and the world's-imminent doom. In their most apocalyptic moments, they dress in red sackcloth (a sign of warning), daub themselves with ashes, put yokes around their necks. With the prophet's traditional staff, they stand silent vigils in public places, breaking their silence only to utter an occasional...