Word: chime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nostalgia for sounds and tastes is palpable. "The mild spring evening air no longer swims with the sweet, full chime of the city's 40 times 40 churches, and waffles are no longer sold, as they were in our childhood, on every boulevard and each street square." The memory sends Alexander into a lyrical flight: "Wonderfully smelling, thin, fresh waffles, which were twisted, still hot, into cornets and crammed with cream--the very image of waves, heaving hump-backed and white-crested as they reach the shore, to topple, curl and close like the wave of Hokusai...
Lewis: Can I just interrupt to chime in with an apt quotation on the point Howard was making. This is a wonderful libel opinion. Its an opinion of Judge Bork's in a case decided in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit last week. "In deciding a case like this therefore, one of the most important considerations is whether the person alleging defamation has in some real sense placed himself in an arena where he should expect to be jostled and bumped in a way that a private person need not expect. Where politics and ideas about...
...hard to stomach the Administration's claim that the deficit reduction burden is being shared equally by all segments of society. Slashing medicare, child nutrition and other socially progressive programs while leaving corporate profits untouched does not chime with our nations of equality...
Experts who had never met the winsome lady read the correspondence and found it compelling. "These new letters," said Poet Carl Sandburg, perhaps Lincoln's most famous biographer, "seem entirely authentic? and preciously and wonderfully coordinate and chime with all else known of Lincoln." Muckraking Journalist Ida M. Tarbell, who had also written a Lincoln biography, wrote to Sedgwick: "You have an amazing set of true Lincoln documents?the most extraordinary that have come to us in many, many years." After publication of the Atlantic's first installment, however, a storm of criticism erupted. "You are putting over...
...shopping for new phones, buyers can indulge their tastes for the fashionable or merely eccentric and choose from a variety of helpful features, like automatic dialing for frequently used numbers and speaker phones. There are phones that carry the imprimatur of high-fashion designers, hide in leather boxes or chime instead of ring. Prices range from $15 for a non-Bell version of the standard rotary dial phone in basic black to the "Elephone," a unit encased in a silver-plated elephant's head that costs...