Word: gnarled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There aren't many of them. They're here but you don't see or hear from them very often. We like to think of them as the future freeloaders of America--those who selfishly gnarl at the hand that optimistically feeds them. John Yoo's editorial of April 12 is the cry of one of these embittered students...
...signs of what Germans call Waldsterben, or dying forests, are obvious. New leaves and needles, smaller than usual, turn yellow or brown and finally drop to the ground. In time, many evergreens, some of them 150 years old, simply stop bearing needles. Roots and trunks begin to warp, gnarl and shrink...
Harvard undergraduates accustomed to unraveling a gnarl of red tape at registration will find their sojourn in Memorial Hall considerably shorter today thanks to a revised policy by the registrar's office...