Word: monkey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subject, when into her booth came Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy's youngest son and editor of Make Gentle the Life of This World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy. In a breathtaking display of obtuseness, he said to Rice, "Max Kennedy. I was on that boat, the Monkey Business, for about 10 days. Wasn't it the most fun boat you've ever been on?" Small pause. "No," replied a dignified Rice, taking the high road, turning the other cheek, working through the anger. Just...
...final serious challenge came against Notre Dame, who had beaten Harvard each of the last five years. The Crimson got that monkey off its back with a 9-6 victory manufactured in the second half...
During the year in which the first bricks of the Harvard women's squash dynasty finally began to fall, as the Crimson snapped a 59-match winning streak and failed to win the Howe Cup championship for the first time since 1991, its captain flung the singles title monkey from her back with authority, beating the top two seeds en route to the individual championship...
...argument to eliminate recess is that free, unstructured play-time has no educational value. "We are intent on improving academic performance," said Benjamin O. Canada, the superintendent of schools in Atlanta. "You don't do that by having kids hanging on the monkey bars...
...monkey bars that I learned that if you try enough times, you will eventually make it across...