Word: betwixt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born in England of Indian parents, Iyer immigrated to California when he was seven, and soon began commuting 5,500 miles back to Britain to attend Eton and then Oxford, where he took a master's degree in English. Betwixt and between, Iyer traveled. When he was 17, he toured by bus through half a dozen Latin American countries. Eventually, he quit globe-trotting long enough to pick up another master's degree, at Harvard, where he also taught for two years before signing on as a staff writer for TIME in 1982. (He accepted the job from...
...discounting came at the onset of the betwixt-and-between season for airlines, that relatively slow period between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, when summer tourists have gone back to work and winter ones have not yet begun to head for southern beaches or northern ski slopes. While more than two-thirds of airline coach passengers routinely fly on some sort of discount ticket, like Super Saver, the new cuts slashed prices even deeper and had no restrictions on travel...
...still wondered where his contact lens went and vowed to avenge Brad McCrimmon for a scratched cornea. No, the face-smacking, bone-crunching, degrading, "If you can't beat 'em in the alley beat 'em three out of four at Boston Garden," generally nasty, brutish and protracted quarterfinal Thermopylae betwixt the New York Islanders and the Boston Bruins was not a good series for eyes...