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Word: dearing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Worldly Music, Hill presented 15 campaign songs from forgotten elections, many of them set to popular tunes of their day: "Oh dear, what can the matter be?/Women are wanting to vote!"; a rollicking boast of "Hoorah, hoorah, the country's risin'/ For Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" to the tune of Old Dan Tucker; and a plaintive complaint about Prohibition with Old Black Joe's lyrics changed to "I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty/For the beer we used to know./I hear the gentle voices cal-ling,/'Have one, Joe.' " The truly grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Time Trip | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...life for years at a time. All Earth Mother types cause him pain, including Rosa, one of twin girls out of Maire by Gog or possibly Magog himself. In the face of such confusions, Magog's blowsy mother Merry (Old England?) asserts: "We aren't a family, dear; we're just a blood group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Odd Couple | 6/5/1972 | See Source »

...Goodbye, dear, and amen...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Cole Porter Redivivus | 5/11/1972 | See Source »

...Dear Eleanor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Other McGovern on the Stump | 5/8/1972 | See Source »

...become clear until, following Epps's request that she designate an SDS member to supervise security. Moos replies bluntly: "Bonnie Blustein, '72, has taken responsibility for assigning marshalls for the Convention." That name! That symbol of all the painfully suppressed contradictions inherent in the twisted, intense relationship between "Dear Dean Epps" and "Dear Miss Moos" and between the institutions they represent. Epps runs for cover. He tries to pretend he has never heard of this person. "I understand," he says cautiously (March 10), "I understand Miss Blustein is under a suspended requirement to withdraw from the College...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Dear Archie/Dear Katherine | 4/26/1972 | See Source »

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