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Word: teething (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response, though, Bowersock has one more trump to play. While the administration cannot force a department to comply with the regulations, they can block additional professor appointments until departments make tangible exertions toward increasing Faculty involvement in tutorials. Bowersock is counting on this "power of persuasion" to give teeth to the reforms. Nonetheless, dangling additional faculty appointments before department heads does not address the central issue. Faculty attitude toward the personalized approach of the tutorial process must change, not the shape or size of the reward offered to departments to lure them back to teaching...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Tutorials: Aging Gracelessly | 3/10/1979 | See Source »

...psychological equilibrium about families and children. The wild swoop from the excessively domestic '50s to the fierce social unbucklings of the '60s and early '70s left confusion and wreckage. A lot of menacing nonsense got flashed around and mingled with difficult truths. Generations bared their teeth at one another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Wondering If Children Are Necessary | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...priests, nuns, questioning students, aspiring authors, fans, cranks. She described her response to a flirtatious note from a man in Cincinnati: "I wrote [him] that I didn't think I'd like him a bit but he would be crazy about me as I had seven gold teeth and weighed 250 pounds." The diversity of her correspondents brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Letters off Flannery O'Connor | 3/5/1979 | See Source »

...School of Medicine for two decades), with his employers. Nor does he skimp on such intimate details as the site and sound of his introduction to extra marital sex. "What it amounts to is that she seduced me," writes Asimov in apparent amazement. "I just followed along, with my teeth more or less chattering, and not out of passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Makes Isaac Write? | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Gene Purdy was wearing a protective mask on his helmet last night, the result of losing his two front teeth in the Cornell game last Wednesday...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: B.U. Cops Beanpot, 4-3; Icemen Lose | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

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