Word: attested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cambridge Tab) if they are to be read at all. Busy Harvard students--like most people--rarely spend the effort to pick up and take to their rooms publications that were lumped in a grubby pile, as bundles and bundles of unread Campus Calendars and Boston After Darks attest. All the major free publications on campus, including The Independent, the Perspective, the Salient, the Advocate and the Lampoon, know that door-to-door delivery is required or there is no point in publishing. Believe me, door-to-door delivery is a substantial amount of dirty, tiresome work...
...health fears often bring windfall business, as the manufacturers of sun block and condoms can attest. This season the booming product is insect repellent. The near hysteria over tick-borne Lyme disease, along with a proliferation of other buzzing pests because of wet weather, has sent the sales of bug spray and lotion rising at double-digit rates...
...easy to understand the sense of pride the nation took in its accomplishment. After all, hadn't America been founded on just the same spirit of adventure and exploration? Didn't the sheer effort required to catapult three astronauts millions of miles beyond their native sphere attest, once and for all, to the dominance of American technology...
...readers of Bass's stories (collected this year in The Watch) can attest, he also knows how to write; and like his oil witchery, this gift is % extravagant and natural. His new book is based on notebook jottings he kept for about three years, 1984-87, chasing a quarry that was "shy here, coy there, blatant elsewhere." His father, another petroleum geologist, complained after reading Oil Notes that he didn't learn much from it about finding oil, but to the uninitiated it richly reveals just what that line of work involves. There is no better conversation, spoken or written...
Bikinis of dental-floss dimensions are hardly an endangered species, as any visitor to the beaches of Long Island or Southern California can attest. And designers point out that no miracle of construction can transform a middle- aged woman into a sleek postadolescent. "No matter what kind of suit you put on," says Anne Klein designer Louis Dell'Olio...