Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...White led the charge. "Everybody knows that Washington, D.C., has no culture-they have to buy it," raged White. He was not mollified by the stipulation that the paintings would return to Boston once every five years for the next 50 years. To try to stop or at least stall the sale, White asked the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court last week for a temporary restraining order. His argument: that $800 of the Stuarts' original purchase price of $1,500 in 1831 had come from a public subscription. Hence there was a "public trust" that forbade the sale...
...porters and sherpas who lead and carry for the two man expedition lug 70 pound loads of lentils and rice and books up snow-choked passes, wearing wool rags at best, and sneakers. Yet, they rarely express their pain or discomfort, though they often stall and procrastinate. They are living proof that Buddhism, at least for Buddhists--which the porters are--works. And since Matthiessen enters their world, it can work for him, too--up to a point...
...arrow through it containing the names "Bert and Margie." (I have, of course, changed the names.) A few days later, regressing to kindergarten, someone had written "Bert and Margie sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g." Yesterday I discovered "Bert loves Margie" written in every stall of the Science Center men's bathroom. Harvard graffiti may never have been witty, but some of us yearn for the old days (the 1960s) when the writing on the wall (as Dylan put it) reflected a more politically committed student body. Ralph Baumgarten...
Brickman, however, has an advocate in Common Cause Director Jay H. Hedlund, who says his organization may take legal action against the legislature if it continues its stall tactics. "We're just not so sure that the legislature has the authority to specify what kind of positions the commission can have," Hedlund explains. "We are well aware of the commission's problems and will be working to pressure both the Ways and Means Committees and the full legislature...
...final 2:33 of the stanza, Harvard switched to the four corners stall offense, with Fine controlling the ball in the middle. Although unable to score off the four corners, the Crimson held on to a slim 30-27 lead as the teams broke for the dressing room...