Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...filthy rich wind up; carpenters, grips, security men, sound technicians and other behind-the-scenes retirees outnumber the luminaries, but the list of recognizable retirees is not as brief as one might expect, given the salaries in the business they have left behind. Mary Astor is here. Donald Crisp died here. Norma Shearer is here. Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson died here. Regis Toomey is here. Ellen Corby, the grandmother on The Waltons, just moved in. Stepin Fetchit is here. Bruce Cabot, Chester Conklin, Larry Fine (one of the Three Stooges), Edmund Lowe, Arthur O'Connell, Herbert Marshall and Mitchell Leisen...
...Today's swift rise has surprised, and perhaps unnerved, some dominant regional newspapers, which have blatantly adopted some of the newcomer's selling points. The Austin American-Statesman is now splashed with color, rivaling USA Today's crisp photographs and streamlined graphics. The Atlanta Journal and Constitution imitated USA Today's national weather map, the Miami Herald its state-by-state compendium of news notes. The Washington Post and Chicago Tribune boosted sports coverage. Says Tribune Editor James Squires: "I see sports as USA Today's main draw...
...that I'm a turd and all filled with expert blocks for undelivered blows. What the Hell! I never meant none of them things you say I couldn't have meant." The letters to Hemingway and Pound show the variety of MacLeish's voices. With Pound, he uses a crisp, precise telegraphese. Hemingway brings out a sporting and earthy bravado not fully expressed to anyone else...
Despite its slow start, UNH clearly dominated from the beginning, using a crisp passing game and an aggressive offense to keep the icewomen on the defensive for most of the evening. But the determined Crimson defense kept the score close, until the Wildcats exploded for three third-period goals...
Other words that already exist outside the computer world have been given crisp new meanings. "Vanilla," for example, is now synonymous with ordinary. "Garbage collection" has been shortened to G.C. and turned into a euphemistic verb: "I'm going to G.C. my desk." "Rape" has broadened to mean violence to a program...