Word: enforcerent
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To University activists, he is the consummate enforcer tough, crafty, impenetrable and unyielding. When Black students occupied Massachusetts Hall for a week in April 1972 to protest Harvard investment policies, it was Steiner who carried a bullhorn outside and laid down the disciplinary law later. When labor organizers sought to...
"Pop had a seven-tiered Sicilian brain so that when they said A to him, he knew right away that he should read it as Z but would always stand ready to switch it to the real meaning, inside the real meaning of the false meaning, which he would read...
THE PASSING of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company last fall was the occasion for just as much gloating as mourning. A vocal contingent of inveterate Gilbert and Sullivan scorners saw the company's demise as a fitting end for the world's leading enforcer of dramatic stagnation. Thousands of...
In the U.S., no sport is truly major league until the television networks and bookies say so, and neither at the moment acknowledges the National Hockey League. The New York Islanders recently won a record 15 games in a row without noticeably speeding up the nation's heartbeat. To...
"I regretted it," says Nilan of the incident. "Well, in a way. I regretted it publicly anyway. You know, guys come after you and you have to do these things sometimes." Nilan adds, however, that he doesn't have a reputation as an enforcer. "I don't know; if I...