Word: kegs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes place in these unofficial House-based organizations. The self-proclaimed "exist and elitist" GPA Society meets once a month in Dunster's Junior Common Room where an all-male membership of 12--which includes juniors, seniors, and tutors from Dunster--sit at a table, and drink from a keg. Dressed in coats and ties, the men usually listen to a guest speaker who addresses issues vaguely centering on the general "welfare of man," club members...
...Secretary of Defense Fred Ikle, polemics flared. Iklé began by noting amicably that French and Italian participation in the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon was a gratifying example of a nascent if limited new role for NATO. But in Central America, which Iklé considered the other powder keg in the world, the European allies had not only failed to support U.S. policy but at times actively undermined it. When Iklé said that the problem was a lack of understanding about the importance of the area, Healey snapped, "We think it is very important and believe...
...Force bureaucracy. Tired of running into intellectual brick walls-and afraid that some of his superiors wanted him to cover up the shortcomings of a new airplane-Spinney abruptly resigned his commission in July 1975. For all his outward imperturbability, associates say, he has a powder-keg temper that can be ignited by frustration-though only behind closed doors...
...assassin (Keith Cooper), an animal (Carey), a boot (Joe Kanecht), and a hoss (Hassan Riffat). They dress in the traditional fashion, too Bandages, crutches, stitches, broken noses and black eyes are de rigueur Florence Nightingale would feel right at home attending to the players over the post-practice keg...
...happy animal in a small cage. On the whole, we learn no more about the meaning of things from our "creative" writers than a child learns about wildlife by watching the disconsolate, paranoid polar bear in the Central Park Zoo. The brute scowls and flips a beer keg around his stagnant pool and dreams of killing someone: a perfect model of the literary life...