Word: rap
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...scandal may be that followers of college sports are incapable of being scandalized. The well-known climate of corruption, exploitation and hypocrisy is also well-documented, if only in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's own rap sheets, so hard to keep up with these days. What was it again that was going on at the University of New Mexico? The University of Miami? The University of Colorado? Oregon State? Arizona State? Oklahoma State? All of these, and others, are now on N.C.A.A. probation...
Whistle blowing or bum rap...
...political harping, and press posturing, that Ronald Reagan is extravagant, self-indulgent and acquisitive is a bad rap. True, he Likes to run with California millionaires. He is one himself. But, personally, Reagan is quite a different type...
...Healey are forced to land their aging C-47 in the icy outback. Charlie Blue, a Tlingit Indian shaman, appears and assists them through a surpassingly beautiful valley to rescue. The pilots promise to return, but before they can, Healey leaves Slade holding a smoking pistol and a murder rap in the wake of a saloon brawl. End of partnership. Slade settles down to homestead the secret valley. Thirty years later Healey ruthlessly claims a lake of high-grade petroleum that lies beneath the glacial moraine...
...control people at times, but he knows he's doing it, and it becomes, like Bones' good looks, just another method of dealing. And they know this. They've read the same psych books we have. To see Cutter coquettishly discussing "duty" to get out of a drunk driving rap is to see how pathetic movies like Coming Home were. Cutter's injuries are part of his life and more safe from exploitation or degradation than someone's laugh or the school someone when...