Word: snook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Buckley worries about his public persona, he does not show it. Snook cocked, polysyllables bristling, he goads his critics by making everything he does look easy or, even more rankling, look like fun. There is a price. His books sometimes show signs of having been written with one eye on an in-flight movie. His syndicated column occasionally follows the hasty recipe, ad hominem, mix and half-bake. Yet he possesses genuine literary gifts and first- strike verbal capabilities that are devastating in debate...
...several years Exxon, traditionally a major source of funding for Middle East-related research, has reduced its support for Centers like Harvard's, according to Exxon spokesman Donald L. Snook. Spokesmen for Chevron and for other "petrodollar" companies say their companies have made similar funding cuts. They say such reductions will continue for the foreseeable future...
Although he declines to put a dollar value on his company's aid to Harvard, Exxon's Snook says that aid will diminish by between 30 and 40 percent next year. Snook says Exxon's significant cuts in grants to Harvard did not come in response to the CIA controversy and that they are in line with cuts in funding for similar centers across the country. The CIA controversy probably would have caused Exxon to reduce grants to Harvard if thouroughgoing cuts were not necessary anyway, Snook adds...
...gave to Callinan. I passed to Jim Acheson. The clock wound down. The Black man cheered. The Cornell students wanted us to hurry up. I smiled as Cuccia snook over from the three. Harvard won, 26-20; pandemonium at Games...