Word: hissing
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...laser-beam stare and the brightest, most intimidating smile since Sissy Spacek's identify her as a spirit of the '60s. For the others, life is more complicated, the vision more blurred. Doe even daydreams about returning to Manhattan, "where the radiators hiss in whiter and I never see the horizon...
...anger of Egypt, which has a mutual defense treaty with Sudan. Another possibility, according to many analysts, is that Gaddafi is training his sights on Chad. In November 1980, he sent Libyan troops to Chad to support former President Goukouni Oueddei in his struggle against former Defense Minister Hissène Habré. But after a 1981 withdrawal of Libyan troops, Habré, backed by Egypt, Israel, Sudan and the U.S., defeated Oueddei. Gaddafi is doubtless anxious to reinstall his ally...
...year after C.Z. came out, Brenda Frazier became "America's No. 1 Glamour Deb." Her name and photograph were everywhere during 1938, including the cover of LIFE, and there was a backlash: people would sometimes hiss when she walked into a restaurant. Frazier died last May-after a nervous breakdown, two marriages and a notoriously messy liaison with a titled Italian playboy-still bitter about her overwhelming deb year. "Brenda Frazier was my parents' friend," Cornelia says. "So sad. But I don't want to read about her until I get older...
Most likely the habit of applauding is responsible for another phenomenon peculiar to Harvard hissing. This one, Thernstrom reflects gives proceedings "a slight element of spice." While most professors share Thernstrom's benevolent acceptance of good natured hissing. "If one tells a bad pun, one deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...
...class in question was taught by three professors each lecturing on a different unit and another students remembers that the class would hiss whenever a lecturer mentioned the name of the unpopular professor. "It was really rude," the students still believes. "But they really didn't like that...