Word: calling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Anytime I mention, 'Why aren't we including women in a class discussion?' they just sort of stare and call me a stupid feminist," one student commented...
...away several hundred thousand dollars. "My talent is to make money, not to manage it," he said. Beverly, who is asking for $1,000 a week alimony, has her own quirks, such as her temper. "We had 26 maids in a year. She wanted perfection," Mailer complained. "Do you call that a crime?" asked Mrs. Mailer's attorney. Norman's rejoinder: "No, I call it a pity...
...Trio Grande, as now loyal Islander fans call them, have combined for 91 goals and 121 assists-a remarkable 212 total points-in just 47 games. Trottier, a relentless playmaker who has scored 34 goals and shoved the puck to teammates for another 45 points in assists, is battling Montreal's stylish Guy Lafleur for the scoring lead. Bossy, a pure shooter with lightning hands, leads the league in goals with 38. Hovering in the background (19 goals and 45 assists) is Gillies, and at 6 ft., 3 in., 224 lbs., he looms large indeed to harried defenders. Gillies...
...What's a prostitute?" Peregrine knows: "A lady with high heels and a tight satin skirt and dyed hair." Replies Benedick: "Oh, like the housemaids. Have you noticed the new parlormaid's bosom?" Their mother demands to know what they are jabbering about. "Ladies," says Peregrine. "They call them intercourse on the news bulletins." Mrs. Corbett retaliates by marching the boys to church, and there, as a child chorister passes by, swinging incense, Peregrine remarks, "Excuse me, but your handbag is on fire...
...theory that the universe had an instant of creation, that it came to be in a vast fireball explosion 15 or 20 billion years ago. The shrapnel created by that explosion is still flying outward from the focus of the blast. One of the fragments is the galaxy we call the Milky Way - one of whose hundreds of billions of stars is the earth's sun, with its tiny orbiting grains of planets. The so-called Big Bang theory makes some astronomers acutely uncomfortable, even while it ignites in many religious minds a small thrill of confirmation. Reason...