Word: galled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...admissions office's refusal to commit itself to Third World students. This year's budget, like everything else concerning student recruitment, was acquired after a long struggle. Still, the budget was insufficient to cover all the areas that needed to be covered. Later the office had the gall to require that some staff travel come out of the student budget. The students were entangled in an increasing web of bureaucratic responsibilities. Endless letter writing, continuing deadlines, forms of all types and shapes all made it difficult for students to work on their prime responsibility--recruitment...
...limited script based on pop Freud and Jungian stereotypes. His enthusiasm for discovering mythic power in such popular arts as movies and comic books was not appreciated by the guardians of high culture. Yet Fiedler outflanked them by describing himself as a hybrid of chutzpah (Yiddish for nerve or gall) and pudeur (French for modesty or reserve...
DIED. Alton Carter, 89, President Carter's uncle and the oldest member of the Carter family; of gall bladder disease; in Americus, Ga. The mayor of Plains from 1924 to 1952, "Uncle Buddy" also ran a general store and for the past few years worked in his son's antiques store, where he was a popular raconteur...
...before he quit to reorganize the Gaullist party. What was once anticipated to be a clear-cut duel between left and right in the March parliamentary elections had degenerated to a four-sided political brawl. Unlike their Italian brethren, who were surging forward, France's Communists were spewing gall...
...three lads were, of course, one and the same. If it is still not clear exactly why Brian O'Nolan had the impulse and gall to divide himself into three parts, something else unquestionably is: the unholy trinity of Brian/Flann/Myles added up to one of the most gifted comic writers of this century...