Word: monkeyed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wheeling 15-ft.-tall Kong statues into 25 of the country's biggest movie houses. In Britain there are King Kong competitions. Among the prizes is a free trip to Hollywood for the humanoid who best answers the question: "When was the last time people made a monkey...
...after an hour's debate, the 300 assembled anthropologists overwhelmingly defeated the resolution-partly because to many it was reminiscent of the church's denunciation of Galileo or William Jennings Bryan's attack on the theory of evolution at the Scopes "monkey" trial. Margaret Mead shuddered at the thought of anthropologists joining the far right in "book-burning" efforts in the schools. Said she: "We are supporting the people who attack everything we believe in! We are getting ourselves into an insane position." Concluded University of Chicago Anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, a strong opponent of sociobiology who also...
After having this monkey wrench thrown into the Crimson offensive
Describing the new admissions process, implemented last year, as "a wonderful monkey wrench in the middle of the drive," Lyman said many potential donors questioned why they should give money to Radcliffe. She said many of them believed the Harvard endowment ought to support all students, since the Radcliffe admissions office would no longer exist...
Born to a volatile Italian couple in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, Stallone grew up in Monkey Hollow, Md., where his mother ran a beauty parlor. He attended twelve schools by the time he was 15, and was thrown out of most of them. "I was into J.D.," says Stallone. "If I saw a housefly on the hood of a car, I'd stamp him out with an iron pipe. A very nice...