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Word: skunking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apologize if I sound like a skunk at a garden party," said Joan B. Pinck '50. "I think you need to put a better spin on it. I see myself calling people and saying all these things and explaining all these things and not walking away with a check...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: RCAA Queries Institute Leaders About Future | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

Pioneering aircraft design did not end with the brothers Wright. Some of today's most innovative work is being done by designers in their own high-tech skunk works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Kitty Hawk | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...skunk and hawk remind me of how odd our college life is. We religiously obey our codes of dress and comportment, worry about social dynamics too subtle for any sociologist, as though the laws that govern our behavior here were binding in every possible universe. We become completely blind to the nature that teems around us, our eyes glued to the narrow path ahead...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: A Hawk's Eye View of Harvard | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...special. At this very moment, animals are eating each other all over the world. What struck me as unique was the way the crowd watched this spectacle, completely transfixed, unwilling to leave in spite of the freezing weather. What does it say about Harvard, if the sight of a skunk or feasting bird elicits such a strong reaction? What kind of environment do we live in, if the slightest incursion of nature can draw a crowd of onlookers...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: A Hawk's Eye View of Harvard | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

...pretty animals that inspired it all." It's no wonder that a real animal can so unsettle us. The rare, wild beasts of the Yard remind us that there's world outside of Harvard. Beyond the classes and parties and grad-school acceptances, another life awaits. Like the skunk and hawk, we'll have to forage for our food instead of having it handed to us. But this world needn't frighten us so long as we acknowledge its existence...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: A Hawk's Eye View of Harvard | 2/26/1999 | See Source »

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