Word: messe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like the greedy little boy whose eyes were bigger than his stomach, oil-rich Nigeria, thanks to a colossal spending binge, is in one dreadful financial mess. The most visible sign of it was outside Apapa, port for the capital city of Lagos. Last week no fewer than 406 ships of all shapes and sizes were backed up waiting their turn for dock space. At least one vessel has been stuck outside Apapa since last February. Maritime experts call it the worst shipping jam in modern history...
Officers' Mess. Some of the opposition to Rogers is based on dissatisfaction with the way she ran the university last year. Critics charge that she acted too slowly in making needed appointments and did not communicate with the faculty. (Rogers can communicate well, however, when she wants to. Last year while visiting the Air Force Academy as a member of a review committee, she was denied the hospitality of the officers' mess at dinner because of her sex. She promptly stamped off campus rather than eat with the officers' wives.) But the overriding issue, in the view...
With Acorn and Bullard, Ford didn't want to mess with a good thing, as the combo produced much of last year's offense. And he was right on that hunch too, as Acorn scored the only goal in the first half, and Bullard made it 2-0 midway through the second...
...subdued Shanker predicted that "there will be a mess for a period of time." The man who had done more than his share to create that mess may pay heavily for violating a state law prohibiting strikes by public employees. Shanker served two 15-day jail terms after leading the 1967 and 1968 teacher strikes...
That men are supposedly threatened by a woman obviously in control of her own life is a cliche used to explain away a thousand cases of impotence. What is more tragic, in the sexual mess we seem to find ourselves in, is the frustration which faces the man who wants to be a feminist. Sympathetic to the movement's struggle, he tries to change his conception of the sexual stereotypes with which he was raised. And he is confused and hurt when he finds himself facing a women's hostility, when he tires to cry "Yes, but I've felt...