Word: limpness
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...early February, Boulac and his fellow coaches gather at Michiana Regional Airport in South Bend to greet prospects flown in for a packed round of parties, sumptuous meals, meetings with admissions officers and chats with Devine. Boulac admits that all this courting could leave a 17-year-old limp, particularly if ten or 15 schools are hot after him. "The toughest thing for a kid today," says Boulac, "is to say no. When a coach comes 1,000 miles to see you at home, it's hard to say you're going somewhere else." Boulac makes the most...
...university. Most of the time, nobody admits to knowing what it is. President Bok announces the time has come to revolutionize it and re-establish a consensus that will last 20 years, Dean Rosovsky sets up six or seven task forces to discuss it. In the meantime things limp along somehow without their assistance, and late in December everyone goes off, still in the dark, to celebrate the season of peace and goodwill. Bok says an important point of the idea of a university, whatever it is, is to enable people to acquire moral values. However, he rarely indicates what...
...half of non-stop sexual double entendre subtlety is hardly a requirement. When the cast is arch, leering, and working together like a well-greased machine, it comes off; the evening, however, has its rough spots when the coordination of the actors weakens and the play goes limp...
...other hand, the limp stock market and current recession (even Gerry Ford uses that word now) have placed tremendous pressures on private donors and foundations...
...wavy hair that is thinning, a paunch that is growing. In the office he is "cordial and considerate to just about everybody." He has "this wretched habit" of acquiring the characteristics of the last person he has been talking to-a stutter, a tic, even a limp...