Word: pang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent case of Yat-Pang Au has intensified the debate. A straight-A student, Yat-Pang, 18, lettered in cross-country, was elected a justice on the school supreme court and last June graduated first in his class at San Jose's Gunderson High School. Berkeley turned him down. Watson M. Laetsch, Berkeley's vice chancellor for undergraduate affairs, insists that Yat-Pang was rejected only for a "highly competitive" engineering program. Had he applied to other colleges at Berkeley, "very likely he would have been accepted." Instead, Yat-Pang will study electrical engineering at DeAnza College near his home...
...walked down to Memorial Drive, I passed agang of Exeter students lugging their backpacks. Iwaved hello to the few kids I recognized. Iwandered alone through the crowd for a few minutesand experienced a slight pang of regret--where wasthe exciting Head of the Charles I remembered...
...short of actually offending anyone, such exclamations produce in their targets a deep, sudden pang of embarassment and sympathy, as if they had just dodged a punch from a man with no arms...
Once again Usher's pupils pang a foster picture than he does...
This is a pang familiar to U.S. athletes, those without a place to play in 1980, particularly the ones unable to hold on another four years. "I was mad. I was bitter," remembered Chicago Runner Rosalyn Bryant, 28, whose best chance at a 400-meter medal may have evaporated with the Carter boycott. "But what can you do? The President is making the decision; he's somebody you never see. So you take it out on your family, on people you're around all of the time." Only 14 then, Gymnast Julianne McNamara could react to that boycott...