Word: nag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hyland again came to the attention of Harvard officials on Dec. 11, 1969, when he and three other members of Harvard NAC attempted to drown out Dean May's announcement of an injunction against members of the Organization for Black Unity (OBU) who were occupying University Hall. The four NAG members stood close to May, shouting loudly and following after...
...Leontyne Price. In Santa Fe it had Mirna Lacambra, a young Spanish soprano with a red-velvet voice but an acting style that seemed to have been derived from old Theda Bara movies. As a result Yerma, who should have seemed tormented and tragic, often appeared merely a terrible nag...
From the Horse's Mouth. They said that the Derby field of 20 was so unwieldy that any nag could win. Arias was not listening. A kind of Latin Dr. Dolittle, he was talking to his animal. "Cañonero," he said solemnly, "told me six days before the Derby that he would win. On Wednesday he told me that he would win the Preakness." Win he did. Rounding the final turn, Avila let Cañonero have his head, and the horse swept by Eastern Fleet and won going away. Cañonero's winning time...
...ground-to-air missiles in the Russian arsenal, is a mobile version of the stationary SA-2s. Code-named "Ganef"*by NATO, the SA-4s have tanklike tracks and can be swiftly shifted. They are being deployed as part of the defense umbrella near the Aswan Dam and at Nag Hamadi, 125 miles north of Aswan on the Nile. In addition, more SA-3s and SA-2s are being shipped to Egypt. Israeli military sources conjecture that with Egyptians manning missile defenses near Suez, the Russians may feel that more batteries are necessary to make up for the Egyptian lack...
...television show were cold and argumentative, and one of his aides, Berl Bernhard, bluntly told Muskie that it was a bad performance. When Muskie publicly berated his staff for a bad press release, Bernhard protested firmly that such scoldings were not "particularly productive." The Senator scowled, then smiled. "Look, Nag," Muskie told Bernhard, "I'll stop knocking the staff if you'll stop telling the press I'm contentious and ill-tempered...