Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with slacks is perhaps symptomatic of a larger malady, something that I once heard Shirley MacLaine during a taping of the Mike Douglas Show call para-pneumoreactionary paralysis. I also have lingering suspicions that Goodwin's obsessive desire to paint LBJ as crazy hints at some problems closer to home. Lurching about accusing the president of being a cuckoo bird, Goodwin is not exactly a cheerful model of sanity. Maybe Johnson's toilet escapades were just imaginative ploys designed to relieve a president of an annoying junior assistant...
Clockwise from above: A spectator takes a closer look. Regatta-goers pack Lars Anderson Bridge. Crew shells are stacked in preparation for the long trip home. Cambridge resident Julie Scholl, 9, talks to mounted police officer Ron Bernard and his horse Cheyenne. Spectators watch and cheer on a favorite boat. The Harvard men's varsity lightweight eights stroke toward the finish...
...April 6, 1909. Evidently these two lessons could be equally elaborate fictions. Geographers have concluded that Peary probably missed the Pole. Now Peary's handwritten notes of sextant readings, compass bearings and the sun's altitudes have surfaced. They indicate that the explorer himself knew he was no closer than 105 nautical miles away, according to Baltimore astronomer-historian Dennis Rawlins. The jottings, found in an envelope dated April 5 and 6, 1909, by Peary's wife, note that the sun was rising steadily over a period of minutes. Had Peary been exactly at the North Pole, the sun would...
...debate with carefully chosen code words designed to camouflage their vulnerabilities. Bush, whose privileged background is alien to the life experience of most Americans, kept harping on the word values as he proclaimed that he was in tune with "the heartbeat of the country." For Dukakis, who often seems closer in spirit to Roger Rabbit than Rambo, his mantra was the adjective tough. Whether it was tackling the "tough choices" on domestic spending or the "tough and difficult decisions" on Pentagon weapons, Dukakis used the word to portray himself as possessing the macho fiber to sit in the Oval Office...
...average number of changes on each petition also increased, Law said. Most forms included two class changes so the number of actual transactions was closer...