Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This intense group, which comes together in the spirit of women's basketball despite their varied and occassionally dubious underlying motives, proved to be quite articulate and eager to share their season-to-date analyses. The following was recorded at a dinner conversation with two of the devotees, football player, Chuck Marshall '81 and resident German expert Danny Goldhagen...
...went to the telephone to discuss the matter with the Council moderator. Saddled with a dismaying sense of deja vu, I was prepared to deliver yet again the true story of this infamous would be institution to the eats of someone who had not like myself had the dubious privilege of being here at the time of its formation in the hope, of course, of winning a new convert for the boycott, and thus perhaps helping to avert a tragic repudiation of student activism in the sixties such as acceptance of the CRR would represent. I was quite surprised...
...them food, clothing and bus and taxi rides. In its latest survey, M.C.E. found that all of its European cities were more expensive than the Big Apple, by total amounts that ranged from 16% for Lisbon to 67% for Stockholm, the costliest city. The Swedish capital has wrested that dubious distinction from Geneva, which is now No. 4 on the price parade, just behind Oslo and Brussels. The next six, in descending order of costliness: Copenhagen, The Hague, Paris, Vienna, Frankfurt and London...
...first, a far from capacity audience arrived a little dubious. They left, however, weeping and cheering. "I haven't seen scenes like that in 25 years of theatergoing," marveled Irving Wardle, the Times theater critic. After a column by the Times's Bernard Levin that was a mixture of rave, clarion call and marching order, Nicholas Nickleby became not only a triumph but a phenomenon. The R.S.C. was back from the brink again...
...Steel still holds the dubious record for the worst ever. Its loss for the fourth quarter of 1979 was $668.9 million...