Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...free-market scramble is going on all over academe, with star scholars' heads being handsomely hunted in the finite universe of top teaching and research talent. In the past year raiders have bagged ten professors from Cornell, impelling that university to bare its own teeth. "We're coming after their people, they're coming after our people," says Larry Palmer, Cornell's vice president for academic programs. "Everyone is jockeying...
...name was catchy, bold and more than a trifle arrogant. Moral Majority. Rarely has an organization set so many teeth on edge so rapidly. The man who founded this multifaith right-wing organization in 1979 was a Fundamentalist of modest renown who was fast on his feet and firm in his convictions. Within a year, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, riding the Reagan tide, had become the most prominent spokesman for the loose coalition known as the Religious Right...
Flynn also takes credit for opening new police stations and for expanding the police force in these areas. But City Councilor James E. Burn, who represents Dorchester and Mattapan, says Flynn is taking credit for community sacrifice and hard work. "It's been like pulling teeth, trying to get support for an extended police force," says Yancey...
...Hampshire, John Irving. All Hallow's Eve, Irving-style. Giant spikers. Heart attacks. Tortured children. A tragic rape. But there's the usual dose of good humor here, and Irving's spirit shines through bigger than the State o' Maine itself. This is Halloween candy to sink your wisdom teeth into, the Snickers bar in the bag of Golden Delicious apples...
...regular students sit in classes and painfully grind their teeth in frustration, the B.S.O.H. has virtually taken over the humanities classes. Varied attempts have been made to "deprogram" B.S.O.H members in order to make classes safe again for education--everything from hefty fines for pseudo-intellectual statements to my personal favorite, decapitation. But nothing seems to work...