Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always turn out as congenially. One night Louis's Pizza became embroiled in an argument whether Dick Butkus would really bite his mother if she were trying to score from the one. Mike was an adamant Butkus fan and assured this disbeliever that Butkus most assuredly would bite dear old Mom or anyone else who tried to score. He used hand gestures to emphasize the point. Unfortunately, he was holding a chair at the time...
...choir of touring American college students, concluding that London could do with some cheering up, gathered in the portico of St. Martin -in-the-Fields church one afternoon last week, and offered an impromptu rendition of Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be? For Londoners who paused to listen in the rain, it seemed like a good question. As the nation suffered through its second three-day work week, decreed by the government because of a coal miners' slowdown, Britons swapped opinions about darkened streets, frigid flats, gutted paychecks-and ways to endure the energy shortage...
...harsh about the foibles of acquaintances and even of friends whose memory she holds dear. But when she calls someone a scoundrel or a swine, or describes a "major" unnamed contemporary Russian poet as "an unhappy, downtrodden creature of revolting cowardice," she manages not to sound petty, vindictive or prone to literary backbiting. Her judgments have been shaped by a hard life that has compelled her to see the difference between good, weak and evil...
...maybe it is from looking up at the huge stands, which could so easily be filled with hundreds of spectators. At any rate, some tiny muscles in our stomachs and necks and abdomens hear Mummy talking and obey: "Do hold your head up higher, dear, and pull in your stomach a little, that's a good girl...
...their home phones tapped and been followed by the FBI. For a scary few minutes, Watergate conspirator Gordon Liddy thought he was under orders to kill Jack Anderson (he had only been told to "get" him by non-lethal means) and was ready to do the 007 thing for dear old CREEP...