Word: slays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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James S. Duesenberry, chairman of the Economics Department, told the graduate students last Friday that "the faculty's right to self-perpetuation is a sacred cow" that it "is just not in the cards to change." One student replied that "it is just this sacred cow that we must slay if we are going to change this department...
...construction at Lok Ma Chau is ever to be completed, the cannons may come in handy to slay the dragon of the parking lot. If that does not work, maybe a plain old payoff in the form of new village sidewalks will pacify the dragon...
...days of Watergate testimony. Hugh ("Duke") Sloan Jr. was selling his house in Virginia and taking a job with the Budd Company, a manufacturer of transportation equipment in Philadelphia. "What was there to do?" he asked. "I would have just looked as if I was out there trying to slay dragons." Earlier in the spring, Sloan had submitted his picture for the class yearbook, a posed gathering of his parents, his wife and the Nixons outside the White House-a fitting photo to illustrate Princeton's unofficial motto: "In the Nation's Service...
...ends in a hasty melodramatic knitting of loose strands. Maas' reportage resolutely refuses to go beyond Serpico's own viewpoint. Whittemore is worst of all, portraying his heroes without a fleck of imperfection. They burst into pushers' apartments but somehow never violate any constitutional rights. They slay two big-time drug suppliers, but the regrettable bloodletting really happens because other cops fail to back them up properly. They manage to get convictions on more than 90% of the 600 suspects they arrest, with no explanation of why the judicial system functions so well for them...
Jeffrey D. Bernhard of Quincy House, Jason W. Slay of Winthrop House, Neil H. Jacobs of South House, H. Michael Levenson of Dunster House, Samuel I. Scheffler of Mather House, Craig H. Ulman of Lowell House, Robert J. Waldinger of Adams House, and Bradford B. Walters of Currier House have been awarded Knox Fellowships for a year at any British university...