Word: uninterest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse became the child's godmother, the doctor forevermore the stuff of baseball trivia. Rod was a sickly child who contracted rheumatic fever when he was twelve. His resulting weakness drew his father's alternating scorn and uninterest. His uncle, Joseph French, a recreation official and Little League coach in Panama, became a kind of foster father, taking the boy to ball games and encouraging him as he grew stronger to use his emerging athletic talents...
...administrative structure, however, the issue of housing policies has to be resolved. The two-year debate over whether all students should live in four-year Houses, in three-year Houses, or under no House system at all has worn down just about everyone involved to a point of complete uninterest with the whole question, but so far no one has come up with a satisfactory compromise. Fox says he is unhappy with the idea of continuing to run two separate systems--four-year Houses at the Quad and three-year River Houses--and considers establishing a coherent policy as soon...
...Canadian House of Commons was wading through the question period, but Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was hardly preoccupied by the proceedings. No wonder: among the spectators sat his date for the week, Barbra Streisand. Pierre's uninterest in the rhetoric was so apparent that one M.P. prefaced a question by hemming: "If the Prime Minister can take his eyes and his mind off the visitors' gallery...