Word: shunned
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...Petty, a Minneapolis sportswriter, was instrumental in persuading Bob to shun the Big Ten and give Harvard a try. All around the country Harvard alums like Petty were on the recruiting trail, enlisting America's young athletes to fight for the Crimson. The recruiters had little to counterbalance the Big Ten schools' offers of scholarships, except "a Harvard education." But apparently that was enough...
...Orthodox Judaism, a woman's place is usually in the home. And all branches of Judaism tend to shun the high-pressure appeals used by today's Protestant TV preachers. By rights, then, Esther Jungreis, tiny, intense Orthodox Jewish revivalist from Long Island, should not be in business...
...type to shun publicity. Birnbach announced that she will be master of ceremonies at a Babson College preppy fashion show this weekend, and will host the Boston television show "Five All Night" on April...
...cool it. But it is falling for the most part on deaf ears. Even Foot, a firebrand himself in his youth, has been overtaken by a new breed of militant British leftists. They are mostly youthful, largely middle-class ideologues who habitually spout Marx, Lenin and Trotsky but shun Soviet-style Communism. Combining pie-in-the-sky visions of a British Utopia with a pragmatic flair for nuts-and-bolts political organizing, they have driven a wedge deep into the 80-year-old Labor Party...
Little old ladies fear the second Monday night in February. They shun North Station, they stay away from the Garden. They know that some 15,000 frenzied college kids will pour onto Causeway Street shortly before the witching hour, half of them shouting and half of them scowling, and all of them loud and ready to fight. They know that at one of the 200 campuses that dot the metropolitan area, it will be a long night, a long, loud night. That's what The Beanpot...