Word: hotshot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There have been no major improvements in the lives of kids here or anywhere else in the city. Kids are still stealing cars; kids are still popping pills or shooting heroin. The possibility of running into the type of hotshot that killed Kevin Harris, a black kid from the Riverside section of Cambridge, is still very high...
...girls all the time--I guess I'm a male chauvinist pig from way back. But I think that money is in the wrong place. That kid from Riverside who died last summer could just as easily been a girl: dope doesn't care. If it's a hotshot, you're going. Black people used to cut their skins and put bones in their noses. That was part of their culture even if it wasn't what white people approved of. In my mind, that cosmetology program is assimilation to white culture...
...success at Indiana State brought him an offer from U.C.L.A. When he first arrived in Los Angeles, he was shocked to find local youths lounging on the beach and playing tennis instead of shooting at the old peach basket. U.C.L.A. boosters were equally bemused to discover that their Hoosier hotshot did not take to the cocktails-and-canapes circuit. His speed was a deviled-egg sandwich and a dish of custard at Hollis Johnson's Fountain and Grill, an eatery that he still frequently attends. Put off at first, the India Rubber Man bounced back by setting everyone straight...
...would stretch and stretch and stretch. Robert McNamara, who called into the Defense Department determined to end the reliance on nuclear weapons, inevitably compensated by revving up the conventional armed forces. He had experienced similar problems at Ford, where an ill-fated campaign promoting safety in automobiles left the hotshot glamorous car as the only remaining alternative. The options were prefabricated. The questions were always multiple choice, never fill...
Because new departments and new fields within departments have developed since 1938, and because life in general does not always conform to written rules, the Dean of the Faculty must, in his words, apply the Graustein formula "flexibly." If a department has a chance to pick up a hotshot professor, it can borrow ahead on its Graustein number and get him while he's available, even if the next scheduled appointment in the department is several months or years hence. If a patron donates endowed chairs to a specific department, or if a particular field grows rapidly, the Dean...