Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff of The Crimson voted last night to reject an ad submitted by Playboy, soliciting women to pose for the magazine's Women of the Ivy League feature...
...This pose of respectability is part of the joke, of course. Nothing underscores outrageousness better than a no-nonsense manner. Frazier's method reaches an apotheosis of sorts in the title story. Things begin innocently enough: "In today's fast-moving, transient, rootless society, where people meet and make love and part without ever really touching, the relationship every guy already has with his own mother is too valuable to ignore." In arguing that men should start taking a sexual interest in their moms, Frazier, like any responsible essayist, raises possible objections to his plan: "One problem is that lots...
...inspection team that went to the pad three times on launch morning--the last time 40 minutes before listoff--told the launch control center that ice would pose no danger. Two men on the team told the commission that post-launch films showed that to be the case...
Suddenly there was a prospect of dramatic political unrest and repression in the former U.S. colony, which might ultimately pose a threat to the two important U.S. military bases on the islands, Clark Air Base and Subic Bay Naval Base. The growing confrontation promised to redound to the benefit of the increasingly powerful Communist New People's Army, whose insurgency will soon, in the Pentagon's view, pose a real military challenge to the Marcos regime...
...Unlike Cornell, Pennsylvania has several strong, front-line swimmers who could pose a challenge to us," Costin said. "However, I don't feel that this team, as united as it is, will allow a team like Penn to beat them...