Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Personally, I feel almost a squeamishness about getting into what could be a very ugly subject," Woodlief says. "The whole prospect of not reporting white backlash, the seamier side, has been not wanting to throw the first stone. It hasn't been there so far. I don't want to generate it, or even appear to be generating...
...Harold Vanderbilt, himself an America's Cup legend, the unlovely pitcher was presented to its new owners and started the 11,620-mile trip to Perth. But first Liberty Syndicate Head Edward du Moulin gave Skipper Bertrand Liberty's dark blue burgee. Then N.Y.Y.C. Commodore Robert Stone presented Bond with "the bolt that's kept the Cup in place for 132 years." And Lexcen, who once told a reporter that he would like to steamroller the Cup and turn it into the "America's Plate," received from Stone a mangled hubcap. "I don't think...
Questions of real differences between the sexes show up only in stark, untheoretical matters like votes against the Equal Rights Amendment and inequality of promotion in the workplace. But subtle suggestions, tiny drops of water on stone, can go some ways toward modifying even the most stubbornly held and wordless assumptions; and the British may be helping matters as they dryly take for granted that, whatever it is that a Lord Mayor does Mary Donaldson...
...idea seems to be excellent," said Bok in a letter to Stone, "provided we do not stimulate more theses than we have competent instructors to supervise them...
...Students are all too often willing to march about nuclear arms, then go for pizza and forget all about it," said Stone. He added that "most aren't really interested in really sitting down and hashing out the issues, and I hope this will finally stimulate some real debate...