Word: arguine
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...close, you prepare for the worst. But rather than self-pitying, the tale of how Mom launched her misbehaving son's drug problems by dosing him with Valium turns out to be tragic, squirm-inducing and funny: "All right, Ma, you win, I don't feel like arguin'/ I'll do it, pop and gobble it and start wobbling/ Stumble, hobble, tumble, slip, drip, then I fall in bed/ With a bottle of meds." It goes without saying that "My Mom" and "Insane" - the latter about the sexual abuse dished out by a nasty stepfather - are horrible and more graphic...
Some scholarly junkets operate on the principle that lofty aims are more effective if all the aiming is not in the same direction. Eight Cantabrigians who will set out in June for Arguin Island, off the Atlantic coast of French West Africa, in a 15-ton ketch called Daisy of Maldon, plan to do hydrographic surveys for the Admiralty, poke archaeologically at a 18th century Portuguese fort, skindive for wrecks, and test the effects of a four-man jazz combo on African ears. "Also," says Expedition Leader Anthony Churchill (no kin), "we may try distilling gin from seaweed." Oxford...
HARVARD SHERBROOKE Emmons, r.w. l.w., Conley Bigelow, c. c., Baker Bacon, l.w. r.w., Barker Walker, c.p. c.p., Atto Stubbs, p. p., McGuire Holmes, g. g., Arguin...