Word: reverting
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...this is disco, then maybe they're right, or it wouldn't be such a bad thing anyway. They start playing Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons here after a while, and these people, who wouldn't know a hustle if it BUMPED into them on the street, invariably revert to the Frug anyway...
Peterson does not deal exclusively with Harvard graduates. Women's roles are changing: one cannot predict what the long range effect of this will be, he says. If alumnae revert to a traditional "nurturing" role, rather than going into business and other professions, they will have occupied spaces in the University which--from a fundraiser's point of view--would have been more financially lucrative for the University if they had gone to men. However, Peterson says he's "betting that women will be active in the business world. If we're wrong then we're reducing the number...
...always been "Give it more time." The deans and CHUL should realize that, whether or not the new system is better in their eyes, it is not in those of the freshmen, and it should be changed. Perhaps if this issue was given more attention CHUL would reconsider and revert to the old policy. Thank you, Marc Sobil...
...always intended to return to the state of his birth. They cite Hughes tax returns listing Houston addresses, plus Hughes' death certificate, which gives Houston as his home. Hill contends that mental incompetence and isolation prevented Hughes from determining his final resting place. Therefore, Hill argues, residency should revert to his Houston birthplace...
...honest woman of Sally. He agonizes over his children. He revels in sweet pain and postures about the divided allegiances that plague him. He also collects locks of Sally's hair. In short, Jerry strikes the reader as a twerp of twerps. At their trysts the two revert to sheer teen-agery, '50s style. They find themselves ravished by love lyrics that come over the radio. They exchange mysterious, monosyllabic endearments. "Hey." "Hi." Jerry gives up smoking. Updike reports: "He wanted his kisses to taste clean." Cupid's darts have all but done them...