Word: ramming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conform with a 1975 act by the British Parliament, Rhodes scholarships are being awarded for the first time to women. Among the 32 American winners named last week, 13 are female. One, Yale's Sarah Deutsch, concedes her image of a Rhodes scholar is a man, Los Angeles Ram Quarterback Pat Haden, currently on leave from Oxford. But, adds Deutsch, "I can throw a spiral...
...Richard Goodwin, ram...
...later. It was said that one gentle old lady, in her Passion to enter, smashed in a front window with her Umbrella. Much was made of the muddy boots that tramped over damask-covered sofas, of the unrelenting drumroll of breaking crockery and crystal, of bloody Noses, hysterical Women, ram pant gluttony. I have always resented the Contumelies ("rabble," "Mob") heaped on the 20,000 Neighbors who called on me in my new dwelling-place that brisk March day. Yet I freely allow that the shattered windows and ruined Carpets that greeted me when I dared return were enough...
...Sunday, while hundreds of reporters and tourists huddled in the cold ram outside, the church membership wrestled with the issue behind closed doors. After two hours and 45 minutes, Carter came out smiling. The church had voted, 120-66, to end discrimination; a committee would be set up to judge the "sincerity" of anyone wishing to join. Carter, who said he was proud of his church, played down his own role. Said he: "I was just one of the members." Clennon King exulted that the decision "vindicates the people of Plains." He added that he would be back next Sunday...
...retrospectives at the Met but whose works possess richer cultural and historical meaning than Wyeth's. Why, then, the immense accolade? The reason is simply box office. The Metropolitan Museum hopes to make at least $2 million from the sales of Wyeth catalogues and souvenir reproductions alone. To ram the point home, a boutique has been set up at the show's exit, and visitors have no choice but to run the gauntlet. Hard sell Hoving strikes again; and one sees another small but distinct step in the Met's transformation from the greatest encyclopedic museum...