Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Waldorf and Mortimer: You remember the conceited, totally self-satisfied dudes in tuxedos who sat up above the fray and imagined themselves to be incredibly sophisticated? At Harvard, they do the same thing at addresses all up and down Mt. Auburn...
Silber was furious and ordered subordinates to notify Abramowitz that his housing contract would be terminated. The threat of expulsion from university housing was enough to bring the Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts (CLUM) into the fray...
...unmanned robot, equipped with cameras and mechanical arms, can operate in waters too deep for divers. But ten British and American insurance companies insist that the loot is theirs since their predecessor companies paid off the loss more than a century ago. Even the Ivy League has joined the fray. Columbia University, whose researchers provided sonar maps of the ocean bottom, is also angling for a share...
...pedestrian meteorology is a lot like the vice-presidency; in the words of John Nance Gardner, "It ain't worth a bucket of warm spit." Still, the warm weather--however transitory it may turn out to be--defrosted a few minds around campus, shaking some latent thoughts into the fray of public debate. Some hot topics...
...offense with some overly physical play. Look for Harvard to turn the other cheek. Or look for the Crimson to retaliate, and watch Cleary explode. When Mike Vukonich got in a fight against Brown near the Harvard bench, Cleary yanked the 6-ft., 210-lb. forward out of the fray himself...