Word: bottoms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
Traveling from area to area only one thing remained consistent: development. Here a condo, there a condo--each mountain is adding real estate to its list of profit-making activities. But the building boom isn't only at the bottom of the mountain. Every area has been expanding lift facilities, cutting new trails, and increasing snowmaking capacity...
...beginning to set. From the lift, the trail that ran underneath the chair, "Conclusion," looked like a fun mogul run. That was our first mistake. Our second mistake was skiing down Conclusion, which had bumps that were in all the wrong places. After gracelessly bouncing our way to the bottom, we got in the car and headed north...
...help make ends meet, the club applied for permission to rent the bottom level of its Mt. Auburn St. building to Festoon Records, at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Arrow Streets...
Another North memo, prepared for the President last January, also outlined the rationale for beginning direct U.S. arms shipments to Iran. Reagan evidently did not read the three-page document. Instead, Poindexter apparently gave him an oral briefing and then signed Reagan's initials at the bottom. The White House was at pains to point to the paper's justification of weapons deliveries as a way of fostering ties to Iran's moderate elements. Yet the Senate report says that Casey had devised this line of reasoning to cloud the true arms-for-hostages nature of the arrangement. The document...