Word: hooliganism
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...those scientists, Sheldon L. Glashow, professor of Physics and 1979 Nobel Laureate, said yesterday the "highly destructive continuation of outrageous behavior by a hooligan government" will "put an extreme damper on (scientific) exchanges...
...decay, 80 years later, still lights up the contemporary terrain so pervasively that the city seems less a historical place than a state of mind. Psychoanalysis was born there, as well as atonal music, several schools of urban planning and modern Zionism. Vienna also spawned the brand of hooligan anti-Semitism that was admired, studied and perfected by an Austrian named Adolf Hitler. The powerful impulses sent out from turn-of-the-century Vienna have made it difficult to imagine the place as it actually was, to sense how and why people converged there in ways that would alter...
...Viet Nam, China's former ally: There is a hooligan in the East. I am sure that we all understand about the word Cuba and about the Cuba of the East...
...huge correspondence, sometimes writing 40 letters a day; his mail went, he said, "to Lord Tennyson to ask where he got the word balm-cricket and what he meant by it; to the Sporting News about a term in horse-racing, or pugilism; or the inventor of the word hooligan ... to the Mayor of Yarmouth about the word bloater in the herring fishery." Once he wrote to the Linnaean Society for help with the word aphis - first used by Linnaeus for green fly; his inquiry made its scholarly rounds until someone in desperation thought to ask the best wordman...
...anthropological film center, which sponsored a documentary he had worked on in South America last year. Schecter admits that his Russian experience will seem very remote when he is filming the tribesmen of Micronesia, but hopes to return to the Soviet Union eventually to do a documentary on his hooligan friends. "I think they would make a great film," he says with enthusiasm...