Word: rub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parody will be sold next to Playboy and should bring in a lot of money. The only rub seems to be that the Lampoon is a non-profit organization...
...like a cat: sensuality glides through her novels (Chéri, Gigi, Milsou, Claudine, Le Blé en Herbe) as a she-cat glides through a warm spring night. Like a cat, Colette was acutely sensitized to appearance and atmosphere; but she used her characters merely as furniture to rub her sensibilities against. The big cat, most critics have decided since her death in 1954, was not really a big novelist...
...general student restlessness on many other American campuses has also had a part in causing the Ed students to rub their sleepy eyes. They found that they were not alone in feeling that as students it is their right to have some say in their education. But the future educators' attitude toward increased consultation with students by faculty and administration, and toward student involvement in the decision making process is more precise. Training to become the movers and shapers of American education, many of the Ed School students feel that it is eminently reasonable that they should have a hand...
...graduate schools. Joel Fleishman, the moving force behind this summer's program, has suggested that Ivy League schools form a "consortium" with other universities, and work through established white institutions in the South to extend more staff fund to Negro colleges. He hopes that the energy and innovation may "rub off" or "ricochet" from North to South in a "cooperative educational exchange...
...bank in the U.S. had lifted its minimum rate on commercial loans ½%-to 5% or more. Interest rates on home mortgages jumped by at least 0.1% in many areas; in Chicago the typical rate climbed from 5½% to 5¾%. Auto buyers will begin to feel the rub next month-not from higher interest rates but from slightly higher prices in some cities. Reason: major finance companies, California's giant Bank of America and several Philadelphia banks boosted from 5% to 5½% the rate that they charge to bankroll stocks of cars in dealers' hands...