Word: dormantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was nothing about the Middle East here [at Harvard] in the post-World War II era," he says. "So I was working with the anthropologist Carl Coon trying to get a program started. At that time there was only the Semitic Languages Department, and that was kind of dormant...
...example she might look to for encouragement is that of her frequent political ally, Governor Michael S. Dukakis, whose arrogance and overconfidence cost him the 1978 Democratic gubernatorial primary. Four years later, having learned a lesson in humility, Dukakis returned to the State House and revived a dormant political career...
...beach, two provocative new books take out after the often maniacal American pursuit of health and the perfect physique. Professor Barsky's book, Worried Sick: Our Troubled Quest for Wellness (Little, Brown; 266 pages; $17.95), charges that Americans "don't live exuberantly but apprehensively, as if our bodies are dormant adversaries, programmed for betrayal at any moment." Another broadside comes from University of Connecticut Sociologist Barry Glassner in Bodies: Why We Look the Way We Do (And How We Feel About It) (Putnam; 288 pages; $19.95). Glassner takes America to task for creating a culture in which people are perpetually...
...buried treasure dates from the Great Depression and World War II, when the schools urged children to open accounts. Many did not claim their savings when they graduated, and by 1950 the city's public schools had amassed more than $90,000. Later the dormant savings were put in a high-yield trust fund but never tapped. Last week the state assembly passed a bill that will allow the city to use the fund's annual interest of up to $40,000 for college scholarships...
Black actors and directors have created their own support network by forming Black CAST, a student umbrella organization and resource group for Black student actors and directors. But Black CAST has been mostly dormant for the past two years, producing only one show in that time. Walker, who served as treasurer last year, says the group suffered from "administrative problems...