Word: larking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million to establish a chair in Catholic studies at the University of Chicago, where he once taught in the sociology department. "Most of my life as a priest I've tried to be a bridge between church and university and failed," says Greeley. "I wrote novels as a lark, and the lark has been a success. So I'm using the money from the lark to do what I failed to do. That's marvelously ironic...
...kids, want to go to the Olympics? This could be your best bet.) Stanford University Junior Bonny Warner, the top woman slider on the improving squad, had never heard of luge four years ago. She won a magazine contest to be a 1980 Olympic flame carrier and on a lark attended a Lake Placid luge development camp. One ride did it: "I was just a maniac for the sport," she says. "I couldn't get enough." After she was hooked, though, the problem was getting enough money. Until this season she had to scratch as much...
...medical student, joined three fellow Oxbridge graduates in writing and performing a comic revue at the Edinburgh Festival. His collaborators were Alan Bennett, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Their insouciant, schoolboy-clever show became the London and Broadway hit Beyond the Fringe, and Miller's two-week lark turned into a celebrated 22-year career in the theater, primarily as a director...
...Prize (1963): A lark...
...provision would also hamper medical research, which often creates such wastes as a by-product. While the wording actually exempts for biomedical research, scientists insist that this is a lark, because these researchers would have to set up their own disposal sites--a highly expensive, if not economically impossible proposition. Legislators are effectively handling this issue, and citizens should allow then a free hand to continue, and vote...