Word: bone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turn to the bone fossils of last week's off-year election, shocked to learn that while you Alaskans were voting in Governor Bill Sheffield because his opponent Tom Fink wanted to cart the state capital from Juneau to Willow, and while you New Yorkers were voting out Congressman John LeBoutillier because he gave you the creeps, all of you were also sending Ronald Reagan "a message." The message read: reduce unemployment, bring down the deficit. The President was being told what practically all U.S. Presidents are told two years after their chiefdom is hailed: no mandate is forever...
...come to reshape policy, to adopt new tactics and even to eat a few words. ("I have eaten a great many of mine," said Winston Churchill, "and on the whole, I have found them a most wholesome diet.") Every successful President eventually learns that flexibility is salvation. The presidential bone yard is strewn with markers of those who would not change...
...meant them to be demos for material he could do with the E Street Band. But the songs seemed to stand best on their own, unadorned, and that is the way they appear in the album, with just a minimum of technical refinement. Beginning with the title track, a bone chiller about Charles Starkweather and Caril Fugate, the ten songs in Nebraska are set in the smalltown, working-class milieu that Springsteen has made his own. There, all lives are dead ends, but the turnpikes go on forever. Springsteen certainly has mined this territory before, but he makes the repetition...
...NOTEBOOK: Harvard has played on an artificial surface only once this season (against Army) and so the team spent some of its Thursday afternoon workout time on the phony turf floor in the new Briggs Cage facility... Defensive End Pat Fleming, who fractured a bone in his left hand last weekend, will wear a soft cast made of silicone and he intends to play this afternoon... Harvard's win over Holy Cross last Saturday earned the Crimson 14th place in this week's Division I-AA national poll...
...They told that if [the fractured bone] dislodges, I'll have to have it operated on, "he said, adding, There are only two games left, so I want to play even if I might have to have an operation later...