Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They also say there is no guarantee that faculty members chosen as departmental affirmative action watchdogs would be vocal enough to jar departments out of traditional hiring practices...
...constitute only 60% of the population in their republic. Economic decisions take the form of edicts from Moscow. Notes Indrek Toome, chief ideologist of the Estonian Communist Party: "In our own republic we are not entitled to fix the price of a cinema ticket or the cost of a jar of Tallinn sprats. This overcentralization angers people...
Girded by the white man's religion, Pauline renounces her people: "They could starve and fornicate, expose their young for dogs and crows, worship the bones of animals or the brown liquor in a jar. I would have none of it." Nanapush survives, largely because it seems he has been charged by the author to be around in 1924, when a lumber company starts dropping the trees in whose branches his ancestors once stored their dead...
...thorough detail, small paradoxical moments that reveal character--the touches sound contrived and unnatural in Carver's hands. If "Errand" were akin to Harold Bloom's apophrades, a return from the dead of an old literary influence, the styles of Carver and Chekhov would merge without seams. Instead they jar...
...consulting firm. He usually arrives for work at 7:15 in the morning and tries to return to his suburban Maryland home by 8 in the evening to tuck in his two young children. When he isn't chain-smoking Marlboros, he is nibbling on pretzels from a huge jar on his desk. More than any other White House staffer since Michael Deaver, Duberstein has taken pains to develop a good relationship with Nancy Reagan. He and the First Lady talk at least twice a day. Duberstein's energy and loyalty led Baker to compare him to a bird...