Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...figures that their best chance to win is to put Hackett up first and try to get some open water between his team and the Tigers. "This was meant to put some pressure on their guys. We figured that by getting out in the lead, maybe we could mess up their race-plan a little," Bernal said afterwards...
This attack on the warhorse of liberals' economic policy is undoubtedly what has inspired their overstated attack against a national convention-- that it might create a constitutional mess, or even run amuck and try to rewrite the entire document. An Article V convention would face a variety of procedural problems, and the Constitution leaves the details fuzzy, but the founding fathers would not have included the option if they never meant anyone to use it. The legal issues are thorny but not unresolvable; opponents of a balanced-budget amendment should rely on the merits of their argument against the amendment...
...recently in a Hum 5 lecture, Harvard's One True Wise Man eloquently reduced Martin Luther's 95 Theses to anal compuslion. My thoughts scattered as he pushed on to Luther's other obsessions. Luther's essay on The Pagan Servitude of the Church reminded me of the unholy mess the Harvard Corporation has made of the Engelhard Library controversy. The Capitalist Servitude of the University was pointed out clearly last semester by Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC) member Joe Schwartz, who said: "The church stopped selling indulgences in the Middle Ages, but the Harvard Corporation wants to ressurect that...
Although the story is a somewhat amateurish mess and the characters are made of plywood, Truscott's book bristles with engaging, sometimes horrific lore about the ordeal of West Point, circa 1968, its codes and disciplines. His description of Beast Barracks, the two sum mer months before plebe year that turn oafish high school graduates into passable cadets, has the ring of first-rate journal ism. Truscott possesses a subversively accurate ear for the intonations of officers...
Sixth-slotted Stone, as usual, did not mess around with her adversary. She permitted only seven points in the first two games en route to a devastating 3-0 triumph...