Word: burroughses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The two men and the little girl sat around the checkerboard. Theirs is a world in which every boy matures to master small motors, to understand the importance of the cotter pin. The importance of the old 14th, however, is an acquired taste Burroughs has not acquired, and Roach has...
Burroughs commenced another move. Roach said, "That's a loser. You're off your feed today."
Burroughs moved the chair back and took another tack. Two minutes and 20 seconds later, Roach said, "King me." Burroughs said, "You always do this." Roach said, "I've got seven men now, and I'll have seven when this game is over."
Burroughs went down, from start to finish, in five minutes and 20 seconds (Roach's longest game was six hours, ending in a draw). "You skinned me again," said Burroughs, rising to leave.
Acyclovir, developed by the Burroughs Wellcome Co. of Research Triangle Park, N.C., works against herpes infections by inhibiting the ability of the virus to replicate. In 1982 the company was given permission to market the drug in the U.S. in two forms, both under the name Zovirax. As an ointment...