Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...child psychology became popular: difficult, slow-to-warm-up or easy. Like Clem, all difficult infants (about one in ten) react intensely to everything: instead of soft crying, an enraged howl; instead of quiet chuckles, uncontrolled laughter, sometimes ending in a paroxysm of hiccups. Eating and sleeping schedules are irregular, and everything new requires long periods of difficult adjustment. Easy children-the most numerous category-are regular in habit, sunny in mood, quick to adapt. And the slow-to-warm-ups are just that: not very active at first, rather negative in mood, and likely to back off from...
...situation, King had been on the point at Montgomery. The eight bombings testify to that. After Montgomery, perhaps out of fear or a sense of self importance, King began to retreat from his position in the vanguard. As early as 1963, his presence in the front line was irregular, and his last arrest was even before the Hoover confrontation. However, just as the bombings indicate that King was out there and was dangerous, the confrontation with Hoover is proof that King's power potential had grown. As Williams says, "there was always the change-growing with every campaign-that King...
...complete with Inverness coat, underslung pipe and austere vanity. His brother-in-law tries to have Justin put into an institution to gain control of his fortune. Faced with "Holmes," the asylum assigns a real psychiatrist named Watson (Joanne Woodward). Even though the sex is wrong, the Baker Street Irregular decides that she is the Dr. Watson ("Elementary, my dear"), and the shrink goes along with the gag. Soon the two are tooling along in Manhattan in pursuit of a villain known inevitably as Moriarity...
Harvard has not played up to its capacity in previous Ivy Tournaments, and the format of tourney games is slightly irregular. Instead of the normal 40-minute halves, squads play only 25-minute periods, but compete three times in two days. This encourages a fast start and then sitting on the lead, which is not the Crimson style...
There is nothing irregular in keeping a defendant free until a final decision is made, said John Roemer, executive director of the Maryland American Civil Liberties Union. "Calley is no exception; I see no reason why he shouldn't be released pending a review," Roemer said...