Word: concoction
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even if Hart does have legitimate gripes against the Dartmouth administration, he doesn't have a case against academia as a whole, try as he might to concoct one. He consoles himself about the situation at Dartmouth by noting that "Harvard, Yale and Princeton are all in worse shape." But "Abortion Now!" buttons (if they actually exist) are hardly flowering in the Yard, and undoubtedly tenured Harvard professors like Richard Pipes or Paul Bator, both prominent veterans of the Reagan administration, would be happy to have the likes of Ben Hart over to dinner...
...life with rebels who have captured him), the reporter dismisses broad hints about what the fate of a Cambodian native who has served a Western employer might be if the Communists seize power. When he and some fellow journalists (among them the good John Malkovich) try to concoct a false passport the gesture is too little, too late. Pran is sent to forced labor and forced re-education in the countryside, where millions died, while Schanberg, back home, pulls what distant wires he can to rescue...
...trained some of its agents in hypnosis. But the courts have not been so mesmerized. In recent years a number of state supreme courts have declared that hypnotically induced testimony is inherently unreliable and should not be admitted in criminal trials, since a hypnotized subject is as likely to concoct fantastic hallucinations as he is to recall true events...
...roster of complaints against the press is diverse, even contradictory, but there is an instructive consistency to the questions that the public asks most often: Are reporters scrupulously accurate, or will they reshape a quote, ignore a fact, even concoct an anonymous "source" in order to make a point? Are they fair and objective? Why are there so many leaks, and do reporters care about threats to national security? What value should reporters place on a person's right to privacy? What purpose is served by the preoccupation with "investigative" reporting...
There came Brenda Fatigue, Regius Professor of Office Fashion, Ed Flue, Associate Professor of Logging: Burnside Marconi, Instructor in Televiewing: Syrup Concoct Poet-in-Residence: Benjamin Manila, Chairman of the Stationary Department: G. Root Garbage, Counselor in Veneral Diseases;...Heinz Pogrom, Horst Wessel Professor of German Philology: Gladys Bung, Dietary Tactician; Fifi Galleon, instructor in French Jobs; Catherine Thigh, Director of Sexual Services, Nicholas Syph, Bureaucracy Professor Emeritus...