Word: mischiefism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...name rhymes with believe, achieve-or grieve. Also Eve. In Norwegian it means "life." It fits the face-the glints of crystalline fjords and upland meadows in the eyes and hair, the shadowy secrets around the wide, sensual mouth. It carries the aura of innocence, of candor, of mischief...
...three weeks. The student demands included better living conditions, a greater voice in university affairs and the ouster of President Leon Netterville, whom many consider an aging Uncle Tom. Last week, in simultaneous predawn raids, police arrested four student leaders-three men and a woman-on charges of criminal mischief for breaking into the school gymnasium and holding a massive protest rally...
...purposes that stray far from their professed ideal. Adolf Hitler made the 1936 Berlin Games a platform for virulent Nazi propaganda; in 1952 the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. began turning the Olympics into a cold war theater. Since then even the referees, who can do a lot of subjective mischief in judgment events like boxing, have often been chosen more for their ideological loyalty than for their skill. As proved by Munich 1972, the Games have become an extravaganza of hopelessly brobdingnagian proportions: 12,000 athletes from 124 countries competing in nearly 200 events, $650 million spent by the West...
...Honker" is rodeo slang that freely translates either as "dangerous bull" (the animal, not the conversational variety) or as a particularly accommodating woman. Examples of each species are at large in The Honkers, and they cause no end of mischief. Whether of the two-or four-legged variety, they have a habit of throwing the feckless hero, Lew Lathrop (James Coburn), into a ringtail loop...
Miami Beach-an island that can easily be closed off against mischief -thus becomes the first city since Chicago in 1952 to play host to both party conventions. The city is not exactly ecstatic over the honor. Only some vestige of civic duty (and whiff of profit) carried the motion in the city council by a scant 4-3 vote to invite the Republicans. The loyal opposition included the Chamber of Commerce and the Community Relations Board, who fear a seven-week encampment of antiwar protesters spanning the time from the Democratic opening on July 10 to the scheduled Republican...