Word: ridden
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...executive committee now governing Afro-Am will be able to fulfill its charge of attracting more tenured faculty to the department. Even though enrollments and the number of concentrators have increased in the last year, more encouragement is needed. Potential faculty have been understandably wary of joining a controversy-ridden isolated department. We urge that the administration put these fears to rest by vigorously supporting the department and the executive committee's tenure search...
Strauss, 61, becomes the third proprietor of that trouble-ridden business in less than a year: Evan Dobelle, 34, former U.S. Chief of Protocol, headed the re-election committee for six months after it was formed last March, then was judged too lightweight; Tim Kraft, 38, Carter's assistant for political affairs, took over in September, then was judged too abrasive. Both will remain with the committee, Dobelle as a fund raiser and Kraft as director of field operations...
Laryngitis-ridden Dave Eaton missed the game entirely for the Crimson and a number of Harvard's key players battled bothersome leg problems. Mauro Keller-Sarmiento came back after missing two games but still ran somewhat gingerly on a tender ankle that a cut up, muddy field made even more of a handicap...
...definitive catalogue of A Star Is Born clichés. The heroine battles with booze and men and show-biz tycoons, but somehow always manages to get out onstage and give a hell of a show. She has only two temperaments, childlike vulnerability and childish tempestuousness. The howler-ridden script makes little effort to tie these bromides to a plot or flesh them out with psychological insights. We are asked to believe that Rose's problems all stem from a fateful night when she let the entire high school football team have its way with...
Unfortunately, Eichner's absence is not the Crimson's only headache. Murphy, who is the owner of two notoriously injury-ridden legs and who has been suffering from tendonitis in his knees, will show up on the starting line without having run since a light workout on Monday...