Word: larking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Things Are, involved, among other complications, a rent strike. "I realized that I knew nothing about the legal complexities of such an act," he says. "I also noticed that most of my friends, the people I had come to feel closest to at Stanford, were lawyers." As a lark, Turow decided to take the Law School Admission Test; he came back from the exam convinced he had made a fool of himself. In fact, he scored well enough to gain admission to Harvard and Yale law schools. He submitted The Way Things Are to some publishers and, as he expected...
Councillor William H. Walsh said he agreed with Healy's analysis. "I can't see what positive effect this parking freeze can have," Walsh said. "It's more of a lark than anything else. Even if it was strictly enforced it could never have any beneficial effect...
...Father Richard Rento of Clifton, N.J., who frequently speaks about Satanism among the young, first became involved when a 15-year-old student attempted suicide, saying he wanted to meet Satan. Explains the priest: "It has become my work to inform parents and children that Satanism is not a lark. It often means tragedy and death for the child and for others." In January 1988 a fixation upon Satan played a part in a New Jersey matricide-suicide case...