Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe that my situation influenced this decision. I know nothing about this case. I have enough faith in the people who run the university to feel that they are doing what is right regardless of whether or not I have made a flap. I do not think that Kennedy or any other people would have taken my resignation into account...
...aside by Sununu after the 1988 election, has spent the past few years on the bureaucratic back bench working for a Washington public relations firm. Fuller is reminding acquaintances of his continuing ties to the Oval Office by confiding that the President is privately very concerned about the Sununu flap...
...then come to imagine that all works of art carry sociopolitical messages the way brown bags carry sandwiches: open the flap and there they are. When one reads a cultural historian like Simon Schama reflecting on the art and society of 17th century Holland, one sees what deep access a contextual approach can give to culture. But this is a very far cry from the ritual indictments of the past on the grounds of racism, sexism, greed and so forth that increasingly substitute for thought among our academics. Lo, the Native American! See, he is depicted as dying! And note...
Doherty, who was Malone's roommate at the College and a member of the club himself, said he was aware of the current flap over the decision of undergraduates at Yale's Skull and Bones society to admit women members and thought the Pi should follow the New Haven club's lead...
...gown, an ill-fitting slice of flimsy fabric secured along the spine by shoelace-style ties that expose patients to drafts in the darnedest places. But the No Moon Co. of La Jolla, Calif., has built a better hospital gown: a soft, thick, robe-like garment with an overlapping flap in the rear held in place by strategically positioned Velcro tabs...