Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later used by President Franklin Roosevelt, had been specially shipped in for the premiere from its permanent display place in Niagara Falls, Canada. "I'd love to have it for city driving," quipped Gazzara, who came to the screening decked out in a Capone-style pin-stripe suit, full-length rabbit coat, and half of the extra 20 lbs. he had put on for his role. The fans seemed more interested in the limo than the leading man; after giving Gazzara a polite moment of applause, they quickly crowded round for a close look at the $150,000 mobstermobile...
Mary Anne Schwalbe '55, director of Radcliffe admissions, had difficulty trying to pin down exactly what it was she looked for in applicants. The admissions officers have no hard and fast rule or method they use in evaluating prospective Harvard and Radcliffe students. The final decision is made in committees where the staff members spend long hours debating candidates qualifications. But before reaching that stage, the application has undergone a process that began months earlier...
...come to grips" with a minority student's background. If a candidate has what he called "a lot of drive and energy" the committee would look at him even though his board scores may be in the 500s, and probably would debate the case "the head off a pin." But if a minority student has gone to a prep school all his life, he'll get no special consideration...
...tornado watch. We toured the town of three or four thousand a little too thoroughly for my taste, then holed up at the Kentucky Fried Chicken place by a pay phone to call Penny's go-between Jilly. There weren't many other places. A Spin-a-Pin six-lane bowling center, a few 7-11s, and the remnants of a destroyed drive-in movie screen torn up by a tornado while Gone With the Wind was playing, said Jilly. It's that kind of town. Sixteen churches, a tiny one-room newspaper and a loan office. The head...
...against you at the green. If it's a choice between a six-and seven-iron off the tee, always grab for the six-iron so you can clear the creek. The right side of the green is a coffin for me because if the pin is cut to the left it's impossible for me to get down in two putts...