Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three heavyweight eights were all undefeated, at 3-0; but none of them had faced Yale. And the Elis were big, bad and brutal...
...case, the company has the last laugh. One of its executives was suffering from a bad case of flu when he met with COWPS officials in Washington after the President's phone call. Some time later COWPS Director Barry Bosworth and several other agency officials were put to bed with what their colleagues are calling "Sears' revenge...
...since last September. The red and yellow plastic device asks wide-eyed kids and fascinated adults to spell words as easy as was or as difficult as quotient by punching out the letters on a keyboard. It then responds, "That is correct," or "That is incorrect," and gives the bad speller two more chances before it spells the word itself and goes on to the next word. The chip has a vocabulary of 250 words, and another chip called Vowel Power can add 150 more. The voice is a male monotone patterned after the Midwestern accent of a Dallas radio...
...afraid of the big bad monkfish? Certainly not Julia Child, that indefatigable doyenne of the television kitchen, even though the monkfish, or Lophius americanus, is such an ugly American that fish stores ordinarily chop off its fanged foot-wide head before they display the fish in order not to frighten customers. Taping a cooking session for the new season, Child hauled the fish up by its tail, showed the camera its "skin that moves around" and praised its "marvelous teeth-top, bottom and middle." "It is firm, lean and gelatinous," she insisted, "and very good in bouillabaisse." When...
...nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development-almost instantly after emerging on the earth by any evolutionary standard-the music of Johann Sebastian Bach cannot be all bad...