Word: lettering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Walter McLaughlin, a Boston lawyer connected with a state bar review course, said last month students were practicing law without authorization, and wrote a letter to Sacks protesting the practice...
...Americans spent more than two tedious months in the home of Canadian diplomats, reading whatever they could get their hands on. They played so much Scrabble, as Anders later explained, that "some of us could identify the letter on the front by the shape of the grain on the back of the tile." Said Taylor at a press conference in Ottawa: "I'd nominate any one of them for the world Scrabble championship. They are also probably the six best-read Foreign Service officers." Some of the six spent the time at Taylor's residence, others...
...would promptly peek behind a curtain in his own cubicle. There, hidden from Jack's view, one of three bulbs (red, green and yellow) would light up. Having been taught to recognize the color, Jill, moving back in front of Jack, would depress a key identified by a letter representing that color. If Jill correctly chose red, for example, by pressing the R key, the key would light up, and Jack would react by depressing a Thank you key in his cubicle. That would give Jill a few grains of feed...
...days of slalom competition, skiers navigated the gates with looping S-turns. Later they flattened out the S-turns and substituted rapid-fire slashes, often brushing the poles. The Swede has achieved further refinements, reducing the slashes to mere flickers of shifting body weight. He owes much of his letter-perfect form to exceptional physical gifts. "He has tremendous balance, great agility, a good eye and fantastic concentration," says former U.S. Alpine Team Director Hank Tauber. "He has what makes great champions: he can do it over and over again...
...students at the University of California banded together as Women Organized Against Sexual Harassment (WOASH) and waged a yearlong campaign against Elbaki Hermassi, an assistant professor of sociology. He was charged with fondling and propositioning 13 students, offering a good grade in exchange for sex, and writing an unfavorable letter of recommendation for a student who refused his sexual advances. Charges were brought to Hermassi's department chairman. The professor was reprimanded orally, and according to the university the behavior stopped. But WOASH dismissed the reprimand as a "slap on the wrist" and demanded a university investigation. Amid heavy...