Word: flapped
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Just over a year after a high-profile flap with the University’s top administration and the subsequent defections of two star professors left Harvard’s Afro-American Studies Department badly shaken, the department is back on its feet and has hired several new faculty, according to its chair...
...anxious climate that grew in the wake of the flap between former professor Cornel R. West ’74 and University President Lawrence H. Summers and the departures of West and colleague K. Anthony Appiah has dissipated...
...printed during the most recent of Tony Blair's many crises. The others ran even before the British Prime Minister led his party to a second landslide victory in the 2001 election. Blair can always take comfort that whatever consumes the political class in Westminster - like the current flap over his arrogant announcement, in a press release and without prior consultation, that he planned to eliminate the 1,400-year-old office of Lord Chancellor, create a Supreme Court and appoint his old flatmate to be Minister of Constitutional Affairs - he remains the most consistently popular Prime Minister since...
...Bragg case caused a minor public flap compared with Blair's, but it was ultimately more damaging to Raines. Journalists started giving anti-Raines quotes to competitors; they ranted against Bragg and Times management on a popular website for journalists. It didn't help that when Sulzberger went to the Times Washington bureau for a brown-bag lunch, an employee said, "he got a harsher message than he expected...
First they flap northward in the spring to their Arctic nesting grounds--the geese, the pelicans, the storks, dozens of species. Then in the fall they wing back home to perhaps Africa or South America, prey to man's and nature's casual malevolence--the hunters, the oil slicks, the raptors--not to mention their own exhaustion...