Word: flaking
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...early months, swapping the lead with the Cincinnati Reds, then falling behind the San Francisco Giants. It wasn't until the last week of August that the Dodgers entered first place to stay, and that after an air-clearing fistfight in the clubhouse between Top Pitcher and Resident Flake Don Sutton and the Dodgers' Mr. Clean, First Baseman Steve Garvey...
...ever met Larry Brown it's kind of hard to imagine him "down" at all. If nothing else, Brown has lived up immeasurably to his goal of not taking Harvard seriously. He's a flake. He's weird. He's tapioca. Antics during practice that would be frowned upon most anywhere are not only part of his personality, but necessary ingredients in his talent...
...House, as the months wore on, it seemed that more and more members of Jimmy Carter's all-male Georgia Mafia did not cotton to the brash, opinionated woman who served as his Assistant for Public Liaison-his emissary to women, ethnics and other demanding constituent groups. "A flake and a clown," some staffers grumbled openly when she made headlines with her impulsive acts-prematurely calling for Bert Lance's resignation, injudiciously using her office to round up guests for a fund raiser to pay off her old campaign debts, inviting homosexual activists to the White House. Only...
...articles about nature, Kirk has already won awards for her studies of such subjects as deserts and whales. She deserves another for Snow. With her forest-ranger husband, she spent five winters on a part of Mount Rainier, where snow depths regularly reach to the third-story window. Each flake, she explains, is in fact clusters of crystals that become stuck together as they fall. She tells how the crystals themselves form, and how snow changes once it falls. It is useful information, especially for skiers, who should wax their boards differently for different types of snow. Small wonder...
...thing, I'm a second-semester senior with a great deal on my mind. My undergraduate days are reduced with every passing flake, and I have far more important things to do than write about snow. Things like eating, sleeping and figuring out how many times I've seen each episode of "Happy Days...