Word: sheepskins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donald Woods, exiled South African journalist, will probably top off his year as a Nieman fellow with a sheepskin. Ingmar Bergman or Orson Welles, past near-misses for the Norton Lectures, may represent the cinematic world on the honorary list...
Ebright will receive $1500, a sheepskin certificate and a Bowdoin bronze medal for his winning essay entitled. "An Endocrine Approach to Insect Control: Status and Outlook," Lucy White, spokesman for the University prize office, said yesterday...
...campus notified one of his advisees that he didn't have enough credits to graduate. The unsuspecting undergraduate, or graduate, or whatever, was in Big Lake, Alaska at the time. He immediately wrote back, as did his mother, explaining that in fact, he was eligible for the great sheepskin. Of course, another look at his files prompted a return telegram, letter of explanation and profuse apology...
...Shcharansky trial has proved again that Henry Kissinger's detente was a stillborn child. Previous Administrations did what Christ warned against 2,000 years ago. Kissinger saw the Soviet wolf scrambling into a sheepskin and sat down to wait for it to eat grass...
...second annual Sheep and Wool Festival of the New Hampshire Sheep Breeders Association can distinguish a ram from a ewe. Even so, plenty of them are parading around in costumes that instantly identify them as devotees of what is known in woolgathering circles as "sheep chic": sheepskin vests and coats, shepherds' jackets and lambskin caps...