Word: potted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political cartoon which appeared in your October 16 issue was in extremely poor taste. Depicting the President of the United States urinating on a member of the unemployed is not a classy way of taking "pot shots" at our nation's current economic problems...
...also might have a lot to do with having fun at the expense of the Brearley School, an ancient and awesome institution on the upper East Side dedicated to the intellectualization of genteel but swinging young ladies. And somewhere in there Prager takes a lot of free-falling pot shots at novelist Jerzy Kosinski, possibly because of the jet-set crowd with which he has lately associated himself...
Harvard got on the board first to cap a thoroughly unexciting first quarter ineither team had a first down in the opening ten minutes, when Riordan finally pot together a 77-yard drive culminating in Villaneuva's first field goal. The Crimson quarterback ran for 29 of the drive's yards, but Harvard's biggest gainer came on a 15-yard personal foul call against Dartmouth...
...free agency, and its promised million-dollar pot of gold at the end of the option year, it does not work in football. When the game's stellar running back, Chicago's Walter Payton, offered his services to other N.F.L. teams last year, there were no takers. Why would a franchise pay a premium for Payton (and give up two draft choices) when its profits scarcely change, win or lost? In fact, a team may fatten its bottom line by not making the playoffs. All 28 teams split the postseason television money even for the Super Bowl...
Such killing has become a kind of unofficial policy in the world. The statistics of mass murder in the past decade or so (at least 100,000 Hutus killed by Tutsis in Burundi, for example, or the million or three Cambodians dead under Pol Pot) somehow should make the deaths in the Palestinian camps seem less cataclysmic, less imposingly significant. Horrible, of course. But Lebanese Christians and Muslims have been trafficking in such mutual slaughter forever. Their blood feud in the past seven years has taken more than 60,000 lives...