Word: fur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bakker contends, money is the most pressing problem. Asked who owns his house, which is held in a still unexplained trust, he says about one-half is his. Where are the cars, the fur coats, the alleged secret funds from PTL? He refuses to answer. "I have about $50,000 cash to my name, and my daughter has $50,000 saved from her music work, which she'll probably loan me if I need it." The thought makes him erupt into laughter. Then the sad face again. "Together our family has about $100,000," he says. He reddens at this...
...which anyone had observed the phenomenon. Could this result be correct? Aware of some hastily made superconductivity claims that later could not be reproduced, the IBM team proceeded cautiously, painstakingly repeating their experiments. In April 1986, Muller and Bednorz finally submitted the findings to the German journal Zeitschrift fur Physik, which published it five months later...
...would not be the first time that Wilson, who is chairman of the sociology department at the University of Chicago, had set the fur flying. Almost a decade ago his first study of the underclass, The Declining Significance of Race, outraged militant black scholars by claiming that the victories won by the civil rights movement had made racial discrimination less important than economic class in determining the "life chances" of individual blacks. The Association of Black Sociologists condemned the book for omitting "significant data regarding the continuing discrimination against blacks at all class levels" and warned that it might...
ONCE UPON a time there was a game called football. Men dressed up in funny-looking knickers and leather helmets and ran around a field for 60 minutes, while college students and alumni dressed in strange-looking fur coats sat in the stands waving triangular banners and sipping brandy from pocket flasks. The game was a sporting contest between 22 men from two different colleges...
Jerry Ford put on his big fur hat and heavy coat, and ordered his retinue out into the Primorskian night where it was 10 degrees F and snowing hard. Bill Hyland, then a Ford aide and now editor of Foreign Affairs, chuckled inwardly at the bizarre spectacle of some of the world's most powerful men walking in a strange courtyard at midnight, befurred heads together like so many frozen caterpillars, clouds of steam rising from their whispers about throwweights and MIRVs...