Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They killed those penalties well," saidMinnesota Coach Doug Woog, who admitted that hissquad was a little bit tired after its win Fridaynight against Maine in the semifinals. "But Ithink if you're a little bit more fresh, you comeout on the ice with more gusto...
...BECKETT FESTIVAL OF RADIO PLAYS (NPR, debuting April 2). Radio drama, alas, has largely gone the way of the gramophone. But National Public Radio is doing its bit this month to revive it with the U.S. premiere of five plays written for the medium by Samuel Beckett. Billie Whitelaw and David Warrilow star in the opener, All That Fall, about an aging woman meeting her blind husband at a railroad station. Following it, on successive Sunday nights: Embers, Words and Music, Cascando and Rough for Radio...
This eye-popping blurb -- about a dictionary, no less -- may seem a bit of a stretcher. But the Oxford English Dictionary is not just another reference book, an arcane preserve of scholars and authors, like Burgess, who use language to make their livings. Since its completion in 1928, exactly 71 years after it was proposed at a meeting of the Philological Society in London, the OED has stood as the ultimate authority on the tongue of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, not to mention the language of tradespeople and the slang of the streets. Relatively few speakers of English...
...help anxious cooks, the USDA and other Government agencies have toll-free hot lines for consumer questions. Some requests are a bit exotic. "Did we really have to throw out the whole roast just because my daughter-in-law mistook a daffodil bulb for an onion and sliced it over the meat?" asked a worried caller. Yes, replied the hot line, the bulbs are toxic to humans. Other questions indicate a lot of basic ground needs covering. Two samples: "Can spaghetti sauce left open on the counter for three days hurt me?" and "Is it O.K. to eat groceries that...
...College athletics is about giving a team an opportunity to dream a little bit," Roby said. "We were all hoping that our league would be well represented. Princeton did a great job. They showed how good our league is and then some...