Word: expression
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solved the problem of living in a credit society when I began paying my Diners Club bills with my American Express card-and vice versa...
...been the type dramatized in the award-winning film Dog Day Afternoon: criminals who have been surprised by police use innocent bystanders as tools in escape negotiations. But in the past 18 months, there has been an alarming increase in the number of cases of hostages being taken to express a complaint about society, to publicize an offbeat cause or merely to attract attention to a personal problem. Among such incidents...
...dunking art, there are teams who make the stuff a group effort. The University of Louisville's official nickname is the Cardinals, but they prefer the designation "Doctors of Dunk." The pyrotechnics are crowd-rousing, as increased decibel levels in fieldhouses everywhere attest, and at Louisville, fans express their appreciation in more tangible ways: attendance is up an average of 2,000 for each home game...
Jones refuses to express any bitterness about Grambling's second-string status, even joking over the years-for the benefit of white legislators-that they should support Grambling "because if you take out the r, then it's a sin." Nor does he complain about the competition of formerly all-white colleges for star black athletes. Says Jones: "They can get all the boys they want, but many were not gotten at all before." For Grambling, integration has meant an influx of white teachers, now about 30% of the faculty, but few white students (only about...
University officials say the "morale issue" did not force Gorski out of a job at Harvard, and continue to express approval of the scientific methods that they say have significantly reduced the University's crime rate...