Word: commas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tests and then, two weeks ago, for a triple coronary bypass. Says Kriss: "The very night before his surgery, with attendants swarming around to prep him, he calmly went over a 15,000-word segment with me-and he didn't miss so much as a dropped comma." Indeed, from his hospital bed Kissinger is still putting the final touches on TIME'S next two installments...
...Connor's devotion to detail soon became legendary. She once offered an amendment to a bill merely to insert a missing, but important, comma. As majority leader, she learned to use both tact and toughness to cajole colleagues into achieving consensus on divisive issues. When the usual flurry of eleventh-hour legislation delayed adjournment of the Arizona legislature in 1974, one committee chairman was furious at what he considered O'Connor's failure to finish up the senate's business. Said he to O'Connor: "If you were a man, I'd punch...
...PASTORS STOOD on street corners and in pulpits, but the Message did not reach many ears. Feeling worried and helpless (maybe bored), the pastors looked up the answer in the Book under Salvation, comma, the World. In their haste to find the recipe, they skipped over certain passages... "Do not judge others, so that God will not judge you, for God will judge you in the same way you judge others, and he will apply to you the same rules you apply to others." There wasn't time to read these lines--gay people were teaching their children...
...only would it tempt Frank to make good his constitutional amendment threat, but government relations officials have said on the record they think the repeal is constitutional, a stance they would have to repudiate should the matter go before a judge. But the University can challenge every period and comma of whatever legislation emerges restricting expansion. "Harvard always wins--it will just take them more time and cost them more money now," one city official predicts...