Word: naming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When they take us seriously, we'll take them seriously. Would you like to have this year's bunch hanging around your factory gates? What's-His-Name sounds as if he should be selling snow tires on TV, and Thingummy keeps stepping on his own necktie...
Move over, Zeke Zzzypt of Chicago and Vladimir Zzzyd of Miami. Few have proved more zealous in trying to be the last personal name in a local telephone book than Zachary Zzzzzzzzzra, who has brought up the rear of San Francisco's directory for eight of the past 15 years. Several years ago, when he was just plain Zachary Zzzra, Zzzzzzzzzra discovered to his sorrow that he had been zapped from last place by Zelda Zzzwramp, and so he added another z to his name. Last year, as Zzzzra. he was infuriated when he lost put to Vladimir Zzzzzzabakov...
Harvard is a big name, no question about it. We know it will play in Peoria, but the question for a number of political prisoners in the Soviet Union is, will it play in Mordovia...
Rosovsky counters that while the use of joint appointments was preferred by the Faculty Council and the Committee that reviewed the department in 1972, he personally placed Isaac's name before the ad hoc committee. "If no joint appointments were possible," Rosovsky asks, "Why would I have submitted his name...
Cratylus: But consider the fastest member of the Harvard women's soccer team, whose first name is that of an agile animal and whose last name sounds like a fancy Italian sports...