Word: unlikelyness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The conflicting values--among women as much as among men--are especially striking in the chapter on "Homemakers." Most of the full-time housewives whom Howe interviewed were content with their lives and proud of their accomplishments. But in every case, the contentment was tinged with guilt feelings and with...
While a Penn victory looked unlikely before the game even started, the feat appeared down right impossible by early in the second period. At that point, George Hughes, Charlie Peterson, and Gene Purdy had all found the net for the visitors and Harvard led, 3-0.
"Don't ask me why I smoke," says the grim-looking man in the Winston cigarette ad. Columbia Psychologist Stanley Schachter, 54, agrees that it is better not to ask. The Winston man-or any other heavy smoker-would probably say he smokes for pleasure, or because it calms...
The story, told frequently down in Maine, is doubtless apocryphal. But it reflects the fact that despite modern instruments and meteorological methods, weather forecasting of any kind remains at best an inexact science. Dreams of actually doing something about the weather are equally unrealistic. People pausing to rest as they...
But the team is young (12 of the 21 members are freshmen) and it is unlikely they can swim past experienced teams like Princeton and Yale.