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...Cassidy's will not seek to offer a standardized version of the language; its gaze is fixed instead on linguistic oddities too localized to win general acceptance. For example, Cassidy has discovered that in various parts of the U.S. a heavy rain is called a duck drencher, a chunk floater, a clod roller, a toad strangler and a goose drownder. False teeth are known colloquially as snappers, plaster pearls, chow chompers and china clippers. The term baby carriage is now used nationally, but baby coach is a popular variation in Mid-Atlantic states and baby buggy is used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hero Wordship | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...Williams '77, a Sisseton Sioux by birth, was raised on Window Rock Reservation--a Navajo reservation approximately three times the size of Massachusetts, which encompasses 1/2 of northern Arizona, a good portion of northeastern New Mexico, and a smaller chunk of southern Utah. Williams, a resident tutor at Quincy House, is now in her first year at Harvard Law School, after majoring in economics as an undergraduate...

Author: By Jennifer H. Arlen, | Title: from bows and arrows to lawsuits | 11/30/1978 | See Source »

Saudis did buy a bigger chunk of an American firm, they would have to report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Since they have not, no one knows what companies they have bought into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Saudis and the Dollar | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Multiflex politely removed itself from its straight-jacket late in the first quarter, as Larry Brown claimed a small chunk of the Astroturf endzone for his very own on a sneak at 2:59. Ralph Polillio had nearly scooted in himself two plays later, but safety Jack Sinnigen cut under him at the one-yard line following a 30-yd. off-tackle burst...

Author: By John Donley, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Crimson Survives Quaker Scare, 17-13 | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Earlier this month, however, the MBTA received the first chunk of nearly half a billion dollars in federal funds earmarked for the extension project...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: City, MBTA Square Off In Battle Over Red Line | 10/28/1978 | See Source »

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