Word: necks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political ramifications that City leaders fear most of all. Though the affair involves complex financial transactions that are little understood by the general public, the scandal could sting the Tories, who are running neck and neck with the Labor Party in opinion polls. "Watergate was amazingly complex, and people didn't follow the minute details," says Peter Kellner, political columnist for the liberal New Statesman magazine. "But there came a time when it wasn't the detail that mattered, but the general stink...
Carefully bending a taster spoon between my teeth, I snap and catapult it at Nancy. It smacks into the back of her neck and she jerks forward into the spray hose hanging next to the smoosh board. Its handle depresses, drenching her leg with water. "Hose-shot, hose-shot!" I chant, dancing triumphantly out of her reach. The waist high smoosh-hose is a chronic problem for scoopers, whose rushes to the board often leave them looking incontinent. Nancy sends a confetti cloud of powdered Reeses at my head...
...puts the microphone around his neck and bumps it on tables, chairs and the podium, causing a horrible noise and lots of feedback to erupt over the loudspeakers in the lecture hall. He turns the volume up, then down and then finally takes the mike off. He decides to talk loudly instead of using the microphone and asks if people in the back can hear. They say no, but he can't hear them and therefore keeps on lecturing without missing a beat...
...result of the new rule. "I'm sure there will be some cases where Division I scholarship schools will attempt to blow the horn on schools like the Ivies," Penn's Jarocki says, "because of the [heavy] alumni involvement we do have." "This is a pain in the neck," Reardon says. "We've got to make darn sure alumni understand the rules and obey them...
...only evidence of life in this room is Ishmael Reed himself, who sits casually behind the desk, a blue-and-white scarf wrapped around his neck. His iconoclastic modesty makes it obvious he is not comfortable at the center of this empty office; he talks as though he would rather be writing--alone and somewhere else...