Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard officials agreed that not all schools share this commitment to women's athletics. Reardon noted that many discrimination claims under Title IX have concerned discrimination in sports programs. "In many cases, it's been like pulling teeth to get schools to improve women's sports," he added...
...surprise, the lyrics are as eccentric and clever as always. Anderson's surrealistic imagery- "he told her about the time there was a big typhoon on the island, and all the sharks came out of the water and they walked right into your house with their big white teeth,"--and her short, suggestive sentences--"You always know what to say. And when to go But I've got one thing. You can see in the dark"-combine to create a strange, dreamlike atmosphere. And of course, she still retains her knack for turning banal statements into bizarre, funny catchphrase like...
...Pentagon spokesman said last week, but they should be left to the discretion of the Pentagon. Senator Andrews indicated that he would wage a defensive action: "The only way we are going to get action out of the Defense Department is to ensure there is a warranty requirement with teeth...
...those two weeks in 1980." Twenty-seven seconds into the Canada game, the defending gold medalists were behind. The final score was 4-2, and though the play was less passionate than expected, the arena was quiet enough to hear a dream drop. The 1984 team has more teeth, but fewer calluses than its more grizzled predecessors. Ed Olczyk, 17, of Chicago, still says things like, "It wasn't long ago that, when the Black Hawks lost, I cried." David A. Jensen, 18, of Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass., is writing a journal on this experience for high school...
...grit sifts through his pages. A farmer leads his sons as if growing things were a war on nature: "Their machines moved out over the fields, the mower clattering, breaking down at least twice a day. The old man stomped and swore. He nicked his hands replacing sharp steel teeth. The hayrakes followed his mower, his sons turning the dried hay into neat, continuous piles that looked like whorls of a huge thumbprint." A mother lays down the facts of life as immutable laws: "There's a lot more to life than the kind of love you mean. . . There...