Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIRST THING IS you see the posters up, typically pretentious Harvard posters printed on fine paper with black serif letters--you just know the University wouldn't mimeograph its announcements--telling the time of the contest and when and where you have to bring a copy of your selection beforehand...
Prosecutor Bancroft, 38, a husky, tenacious man, tried the psychiatrist's temper during cross-examination but failed to shake his testimony or to attack his credentials successfully. Oddly, the prosecution did not bring up one bizarre episode in West's career: killing an elephant with an overdose of...
Even without the weekly batch of transients, the Russian presence in Luxembourg is about as subtle as an elephant at a garden party. Ambassador Yevgeni Kosarev, a dour commissar-type who bores his fellow diplomats at cocktail parties by talking endlessly about grain crops, supervises an embassy of 36 Soviet...
Outside the terminal, about 400 feet away, an artist named Enoch L. Stamey, 38, could see his breath in the cold night air as he waited for a limousine to take him up to Woodbridge, Conn. In the building, Edythe Bull, an energetic, 72-year-old nature lover and retired...
Democrats cried foul. The new name "implies they have severed relations with the national party," grumped State D.F.L. Chairman Ulric Scott. "An Independent-Republican is an elephant that is trying to forget." Furthermore, he slyly suggested to the state consumer affairs department, the title constitutes deceptive advertising. Minnesota's...