Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspicion that the coaches are nervous because they don't really notice that your mind is a thousand miles away. They just keep talking because they feel kind of helpless when the game is being played so they just keep talking trying to do that one last bit to get you ready...
...what's special he shot back, moving into the type of diatribe they would have loved to hear up at Byerly Hall. You're looking at the oldest-collgein America with the finest-facultyanywhere and thebest-studentbodyaround. It's the people who are important he argued, slowing down a bit as he noticed the cords standing out in Lou's neck, which was purple. It doesn't matter where you live in Harvard, it's who you meet, it's hwat's you learn that's important, quoting what they had told him at the housing office when...
...calmed down a bit and the three strolled over the superette for a can of soda. Inside, the usual crowd of truckdrivers was standing around mumbling strange things to the owner, a short Greek who wore sunglasses even when it rainzd and who smiled like Art Carney. The first thing Mrs. Jou noticed was that the truckers were all standing by the magazine rack, taking in the heavy-duty porno mags. The first thing Carlo noticed was the de luxe C.B. next to the rack into which one of the truckers was reading an excerpt from the Hustler letters column...
...possible that from the beginning, Lindbergh was burdened with a bit more symbolism than he should have been made to carry. His flight, for all its significance, was in some ways merely a handsome stunt. It was also one of the first great media events of the century. Frenchman Raymond Orteig had offered $25,000 for the first nonstop flight between New York and France.* Through the winter and early spring of 1927, the newspapers - then in one of the most aggressively competitive eras of American journalism - had promoted the race among Admiral Richard Byrd, the polar explorer, and others...
...melismatic improviser he has been through much of the 1970s. A Period of Transition leans toward streetgritty rhythm and blues, and Morrison is backed up by New Orleans Gumbo Rocker Mac ("Dr. John") Rebennack, who is the album's keyboard player and coproducer. Somewhat weakened by repetitiveness (one bit of business is repeated 38 times), the record has little meat but plenty of motion...