Word: strause
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...University is so worried about disrupting student life, maybe they could reroute (or ban) the tour group that gets in the way of my 11:05 dash from Straus to Sever every Tuesday and Thursday morning. Sorry I’m not sorry, Unofficial Tours—but those hats look stupid and I might be less bothered if you could pay $25,000 for disrupting the Yard...
...We’ve never won the Straus Cup, so we were particularly delighted to have a winning sports team,” Quincy House Master Lee Gehrke said...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 112 pages...
...overall the percentage of parents who spank has been steadily declining. Straus says that in 1968, 94% of Americans told surveyors they agreed with spanking. By 2005, the proportion who said it is "sometimes O.K. to spank a child" had fallen to 72%, although most researchers believe the actual incidence of corporal punishment is higher...
...practice has its defenders, and Straus himself admits, with chagrin in his voice, that he spanked his own son. In the 1990s, the American Academy of Pediatrics underwent a bitter fight before finally declaring in 1998 that "corporal punishment is of limited effectiveness and has potentially deleterious side effects...