Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...died in January at 81, the court's crusty, most independent Ioner and liberal completed a long memoir of the nearly 37 years he had spent on the bench. Early reports are that the forthcoming book, which is due from Random House this fall, shows that Douglas was bold in setting down his often acid-etched opinions of the court and his colleagues. A former law clerk of Douglas' who has seen the early drafts describes some of the Justice's comments about his brethren as "incredibly nasty. They read like something that Alice Roosevelt Longworth would...
Mahre is a strong and bold competitor. His first run down Whiteface last week was a brilliant attack-nothing held back, no ghosts, no fear, just a great technical skier slicing through the gates on a line as pure and fast as the mountain would allow. Leading after that first run, he was hardly out of the start house on the second when a bouncing gate pole dropped across his skis, slowing him for an instant, upsetting his concentration, almost making him fall. The damage was done; the imperturbable Stenmark overtook Mahre in the second run and snared the gold...
...would disagree. For politicians, pundits and mere voters groping for some tangible indication of which would-be Wizard of Oz to follow down the yellow brick road to the White House, New Hampshire fills a psychological void. New Hampshire takes the vague preconceptions and sets them in bold type; where conflicting polls lose meaning, the neat, unchanging rows of figures give everyone something to latch on to as gospel. "The people have spoken, the fools...
...Government began to get alarmed about the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. In the Oval Office men seem to pause a second or two longer in their deliberations. If Carter had muted U.S. indignation, then had not had to back down later, would the Soviets have been so bold in Afghanistan? Some authorities think...
Support for this bold assertion comes from careful study of more than two dozen skeletal remnants recently dug up by Simons' team. These fossils helped the scientists re-create not only the physical structure of the animal, its movements and diet but its social behavior as well. Of special importance were the primate's teeth. "The males had large, fanglike canine teeth," explains Duke Anatomist