Word: check
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major reasons for going to college was to get away from whoever it was in my family who was in charge of putting the hair on the toothpaste. (They all denied it, of course.) Yet the phenomenon continued throughout freshman year. At night I would check the toothpaste carefully, and put the cover on tightly. Every morning I would rush to the sink and unscrew the toothpaste, and there it was--a series of brown hairs stuck smack dab in the middle of the tube opening...
Then, just check out this week's KBJR-TV (Duluth, Minn.) and WPLM (Hancock, Mich.) collegiate hockey polls. Are they talking about the same season...
...have a future in the humor-column dodge, but don't quit your job at the shoe factory till the check clears. Still interested? Try completing the column from this collection that begins "I've been wondering for a long time where all the chicken a la king went." Calvin Trillin, The New Yorker writer and syndicated columnist (weekly in 200 newspapers), handed himself this chiller a couple of years ago. Clearly he had used up all his easy material about Ronald Reagan and how everyone hates mimes. He had to throw in every surefire giggle from Nehru jackets...
...Lazarchick's case, the potential rewards seemed worth the gamble. "She was young, and we had a frozen graft that perfectly matched her joint," Schmidt says. The hospital's bone bank is one of several hundred nationwide. With prior consent, doctors routinely remove bones from patients who die suddenly, check them for infections such as hepatitis and AIDS, encase them in plastic and store them at -112 degreesF in freezers. Though the living tissue is killed by the extreme cold, the bone's structure survives. Thus, once surgeons implant the new graft, tissue rejection -- the unforgiving nemesis of most transplant...
...total brokers: 6,500) and avoided being taken over during Wall Street's consolidation binge in the early 1980s. But the firm apparently grew faster than its supervisory structure could handle. In 1985 Hutton pleaded guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud for operating an elaborate check-kiting scheme in which the company's cash managers had used at least $10 billion from 400 banks without paying interest...