Word: exaction
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According to University policy, UHS informs senior tutors and the Freshman Dean's Office when students are admitted to Stillman Infirmary for alcohol poisoning--just as for any other prolonged illness--but does not specify the exact nature of the malady...
Three years ago, Rudenstine gave the campaign kick-off speech to many of the same audience members in the exact same room. His earlier speech, though, was more personal in tone and emphasized the donors' important role in Harvard's history, citing, among other anecdotes, how Harvard got its first observatory...
Mick's reasons for jaunting to London from his home in Sheffield are quite different from Judy's--less hokey maybe, but not much more believable. Mick speeds to the city in order to exact revenge on six men who (he is told) raped his girlfriend, Gabby, after her act at a private strip-show. As he knows nothing about the city, Mick ducks into a bookstore to buy a map, but comically, he accomplishes little more than entertaining us with the plop-thud of his wooden dialogue: "'What's your name?' Mick asked. She hesitated before saying, 'Judy. Judy...
...fantasy is. Her family all tread very softly around her, hoping that "she won't be dangerous as long as she takes her medicine." Lesly, as the odd man out, is the only character to question the family's complete submission to and indulgence of Jackie O. With the exact nature of Jackie's illness left very vague, the viewer suffers from a devilish, but painful, ambivalence over whether her mental state followed the incest or was present all along. Meanwhile, Mrs. Pascal and the rest of the family accept the incest as a natural occurrence in this very unconventional...
Dowker said that the thieves entered his office at 4:10 a.m. Dowker said that as they entered the office, they knocked his "Manchester United Football" clock off the wall. The batteries fell out, and the clock now reads the exact time of the forced entry...