Word: braced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overpriced jubiliana being hawked in London were necklaces, beer mugs, T shirts, jeans, egg timers, shopping bags, ashtrays and thermometers. One London sex shop offered a matching bra-and-panties set, boldly emblazoned with the Queen's state coach and horses. Two British breweries offered pub customers a brace of special celebration brews: Queen's Ale and Silver Jubilee...
...summer, and ex-Nixon Aide Kevin Phillips says he has nearly 1,000 subscribers to his $94-a-year American Political Report. Among the latest victims of newsletter fever are magazine and book publishers: U.S. News and World Report and Newsweek have launched newsletters in the past year, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich last year paid $1.4 million for a Boston group of seven letters, and CBS and Field Enterprises are pondering new entries...
Fitzgibbons fired his superlative round despite taking three-putt greens. "The greens were absolutely outrageous," he said. "It was deplorable." Fitzgibbons birdied three holes including the brace of treacherous par threes, the third and 16th. He holed out from 20 feet on the third, remarking, "I just tried to lag it but it went in, bounding...
...linksmen had already routed the Eagles in an earlier season match but yesterday a B.C. duo of Dave Magdalenski and John McCann finished first and second in the individual scoring department. Magdalenski ousted Crimson captain Alex Vik as the Greater Boston champion with a brace of 75s to finish as medalist while McCann posted a morning 73 to finish second...
...drizzle to Teterboro, a town with ten inhabitants, an efficient (as we would discover) police force, and a busy, private-commercial airport with 15,000 employees. That morning, it seemed, all 15,000 had called in sick. Little airplanes squatted in neat rows, roped to the tarmac to brace against the wind. A flag flapped and clanked above us. Nothing stirred on the runway, or in our parking lot, or by the hangars. We hoisted our packs, draped our ponchos over them and set off through what had become a downpour to find St. Thomas...