Word: abounded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even routine activities like brushing teeth or reflex actions like sneezing and coughing can knock the back out of whack. The horror stories abound. In Alexandria, Va., Anne Moffett, 37, a mother of three, found herself stricken while bending over to make a bed: "Minutes passed, but I was too terrified to straighten up, even to withdraw my hands from the covers. Finally my mother came and coaxed me, inch by painful inch, into...
...Discords abound as Carter meets the West's leaders in Venice...
Horror stories about teaching abound. In Oregon a kindergarten teacher who had been given As and Bs at Portland State University was recently found to be functionally illiterate. How could this be? Says Acting Dean of the School of Education Harold Jorgensen: "It was a whole series of people not looking closely...
...Ironies abound. Neither war nor peace prevails, and although both the military occupation and the colonial system clearly are coming to their ends, only military and colonial rigidities allow life on the island to function at all. The cynical attitudes of otherwise good men come glaringly into view...
Though piano bars, jazz joints and discos abound in the Big Apple, the Rainbow Grill is the classiest cabaret today in a city that once boasted such lively nocturnal redoubts as the Blue Angel, Le Ruban Bleu, La Vie en Rose, the Latin Quarter, the Persian Room and Cafe Society Uptown and Downtown. The irony is that this topless tower should be in the heart of staid Rockefeller Center, built 45 years ago by a family not exactly famed for tripping the light fantastic. On the other hand, the Rockefellers have never been known to disapprove of profitability...