Word: blur
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...becomes progressively more difficult, however, even to determine which side of the line he occupies. Distinctions blur. The magistrate flies into hysterics on learning that Marta allowed the maid's son to touch his Mickey Mouse collection...
Just as bankers were gearing up last week to launch the new money-market accounts that pay high interest, federal regulators authorized financial institutions to offer yet another option beginning Jan. 5 that will almost totally blur the distinction between savings and checking deposits. The account will require a minimum balance of $2,500, but it will have no interest ceiling, and depositors will be able to write an unlimited number of checks. Similar to so-called NOW checking accounts that currently have an interest lid of 5¼%, this latest innovation has already been dubbed the Super...
...much Western press coverage, the territory is more often called by its official label--South-West Africa--than by the native derivative it will supposedly assume when and if it gains its independence. The longer Western viewers think of it as South-West Africa, the more they tend to blur its saga together with that of South Africa--the nation which has held power in Namibia since 1920 under a League of Nations mandate, and which still refuses to relinquish the territory despite repeated World Court and United Nations demands...
...tales blur the line between the superrealistic and the gothic. In "The Gift Horse's Mouth" by R.E. Smith, a rancher's wife has to cut off the head of a dead, possibly rabid mare that had bitten her daughter. In Ian MacMillan's "Proud Monster-Sketches," prisoners of the Nazis bury their own dead: "Returning to the edge of the pit, staggering with exhaustion and aching with hunger, Kratko barely notices that they walk on the girl's back...
...might just as well have stayed at home. Sophomore year at the Stadium, with Harvard quarterback Brian Buckley chuckling musk-melons, proved to be a joke. There were no surprises: Yale was better; Yale won. The end of the game is something of a blur, but I do remember being on the field before the game was over. My intent was to protect the goal-posts from a fate similar to that which the Eli uprights had suffered the year before. "Fight fiercely, men," I cried, and headed into the fray in the end gone...