Word: tails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Leverett House: Things should get easier at the tail end of a matching test, but this is a real stickler. Leverett House resident and soccer captain Michael Smith (Leicester, England) might be able to figure it out, though, because leverett is a British word for a rabbit. Rabbits, Bunnies, they're all the same...
...Shulamith and me. Working around the clock, we induced strangulation in a mouse. This was accomplished by coaxing the rodent to ingest healthy portions of Gouda cheese and then making it laugh. Predictably, the food went down the wrong pipe, and choking occurred. Grasping the mouse firmly by the tail, I snapped it like a small whip, and the morsel of cheese came loose. Shulamith and I made voluminous notes on the experiment. If we can transfer the tailsnap procedure to humans, we may have something. Too early to tell...
...Tucking Tail and Running Claude ("Buddy") Leach's political future looked bleak indeed after he narrowly won his congressional seat in Louisiana's Fourth District two years ago. He was subsequently indicted for buying votes in both the primary and general elections. A total of 35 people have been convicted in the scandal, including the mayor of Leach's home town of Leesville, but Leach was acquitted...
...York City, Brzezinski was booed by many of the delegates. Last week Brzezinski was the target of a scathing indictment by William H. Sullivan, former U.S. Ambassador to Tehran. In the latest round of one of Washington's favorite parlor games, "Who Lost Iran?" Sullivan pins the tail squarely on Brzezinski, accusing him of undermining diplomatic efforts to open contacts with the Ayatullah Khomeini and thus blunt the anti-Americanism of the revolutionary regime. Writing in the fall issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Sullivan also claims that Brzezinski first scuttled a U.S. plan to mediate between Khomeini...
...while in office has sown the seeds of paranoia, a tension of the type he claimed he would dispel. Who knows what U.S. foreign policy is exactly? Is the Georgia clan running the country? More conspiratorially, some have wondered if Carter deliberately induced the recession knowing the slump would tail off and conditions would be "improving" around election time. Perhaps that scheme seems ridiculous, but such is the psychological atmosphere--and it only represents relativistic politics taken to a logical extreme...