Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some new national folklore, timeless music conjuring a time that never was. He has been away eleven years now, ever since he organized rock's greatest farewell concert, 1976's The Last Waltz, during which he and the Band brought together "different spokes in the wheel of our music" -- Bob Dylan to Neil Diamond, Joni Mitchell to Muddy Waters -- and saw themselves off into the history books in princely fashion...
...Once again," said Prime Minister Bob Hawke of Australia, "TIME has scooped its competitors." While other Australian publications had been planning projects to mark the country's 200th birthday, TIME AUSTRALIA was unveiling its lavish special issue ahead of most of the pack. At a ceremony in Melbourne two weeks ago to launch the 128-page commemorative edition, Hawke declared, "In TIME AUSTRALIA, we have an example of an outstandingly successful news venture based on the world's greatest magazine, but already becoming identifiably Australian in character...
...This is the busiest time of the year for us," said Bob Thurber, dispatcher for Bonanza Bus Lines...
...seemed agreeable to both parties. Neither side wanted to raise revenues by increasing rates on income taxes, which the President would almost certainly veto. "They say the first things the man downtown will ask are 'What kind of taxes are there?' and 'How much are they?' " acknowledged Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon. Thus any new taxes will include the closing of loopholes, the imposition of larger fees for Government services, and similarly innocuous revenue raisers. For example, under the Democratic proposal, the income tax deduction for interest on home- equity loans would be limited to the first...
...happened to rest on Higginson Snotbottom's numinously scriptatory editorial effusion, "Why Daily Pensters Don't Wear Clothes." I fear they rested but a moment, a soi-disant hermeneutic flicker in my day, since at the time I was on the ship-to-shore phone, advising my good friend Bob Bork on possible mano-a-mano means of unmanning (were this necessary) the mewling catamites of the Left. Simultaneously I was correcting National Review galleys, sipping a very adequate Chateau Lafitte '41, playing a gripping game of trans-Atlantic telephone chess (on the other line) with dear Margaret Thatcher...