Word: mastermind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hendrik Verwoerd, the mastermind of apartheid, died by an assassin's hand on the floor of South Africa's House of Assembly (the scuffle marks are still visible), and his bronze bust continues to glower from its plinth in the old entrance hall. One imagines he would never have countenanced the vibrant scene last week, as the House opened its new session complete with tribal dress in the back benches. But Verwoerdian notions about decorum, among other topics, no longer hold sway in a government whose face has changed dramatically overnight. Parliament, with its stuffy, Westminster-style affectations, has already...
...Crimson, all they had to do was find out how the problem might be solved: ;last year, the students proposed to Dean Nathans and Dean Young a system they liked better, and after a meeting of proctors it was adopted, They also assume that Linda Boland is the evil mastermind behind this plot, when in reality the current system was originally created and approved by ALL of the 29G proctors. Boland herself explains, "If you're unhappy about something, why don't you go to the powers that be?.... Last year, the students didn't like the way we divided...
Call it a nexus, a linking of best-seller components: war, romance, treachery and the sort of cross-cultural trim that has Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, mastermind of the Pearl Harbor strike, spouting about American baseball. He hates the Yankees for their brute power and likes the adroit Cardinals because "they play the game more like we do." This used to be called sneaky, though Deford, a veteran sportswriter, scores one for international correctness when Yamamoto notes that Westerners use the term "element of surprise" when referring to their own wily tactics...
...restaurants, is moving into the home. "Parents exposing their children to secondhand smoke is the most common form of child abuse in America," argues attorney John F. Banzhaf III, the executive director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Banzhaf, a longtime foe of the tobacco industry and mastermind of the child-protection strategy, got a major boost in January, when an Environmental Protection Agency report concluded that secondhand smoke causes 3,000 American adults to die of lung cancer each year. The study also blamed proximity to smoking for hundreds of thousands of cases of childhood respiratory illnesses, such...
...about that much-maligned offensive creation from the mastermind of Joe Restic. Clearly, Giardi has become the definitive product of the revolutionary creature known as the Multi-flex, but he can recall his initial horror upon first reading the playbook...