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...this is his last night. I caught him using my comb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Interview :David Letterman He's No Johnny Carson | 2/6/1989 | See Source »

...hair's all messed up. Don't you ever comb...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: No More Black Cats Allowed | 10/26/1988 | See Source »

...good, unrenovated woody is hard to find. The frame must bear the original manufacturer's number if it is to be considered vintage. Boat brokers and their scouts comb through the backwoods of Michigan, New England, Canada and even Scandinavia in search of suitable craft. The cold freshwater lakes and the long, dry winter-storage seasons in those areas make them prime hunting grounds for well-preserved hulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Wild About Woodies | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...coma. She regained consciousness some weeks later, but could not speak and could move only her right hand. With the help of her roommate, Karen Thompson, an associate professor of physical education at St. Cloud State University, Sharon, then & 27, struggled to learn to sip from a glass, comb her hair, communicate with a typewriter. "We learned to play again, to laugh again," Thompson recalls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: Tragic Tug-of-War | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

...center," said Professor Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez '70, who chaired the search committee which brought Altshuler to Harvard. "We looked at an enormous number of people, but we didn't extend an offer to anyone but Professor Altshuler. It was one of those searches in which you comb the world...

Author: By Colin F. Boyle, | Title: A Big Turn to Government on a Small Scale | 7/1/1988 | See Source »

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