Word: dears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time the couple surfaced, they had already bought a new Oldsmobile, planned on getting a new house and quit their jobs (he was a $320-a-week truck driver, she a $150-a-week dry-cleaning attendant). The rest would go to relatives, traveling and charities. Uh, Dear Mr. and Mrs. Kelly: You might be interested in learning more about this deserving writer currently employed in the scintillating but underpaid field of journalism whose byline is... -By Guy D. Garcia
...Lake Placid, Randy Gardner and Tai Babilonia. Something at the base of this light and lovely sport is dark and disturbing. At tender ages, children by the pair are instructed how to hold on to each other as intimately as a man and woman, to hang on for dear life and try not to fall. When dropped, they shatter. Olympic athletes in almost all of the various sports heed nutritionists and other modern helpers, but the figure skaters make the best use of psychologists...
...Emily Dickinson and pillar of respectability. "I love you, and I want you bitterly," Mabel wrote to Dickinson. Her husband seems to have been remarkably tolerant, and so was the genteel society of Amherst. When Dickinson died in 1895, nobody was surprised that Mabel kissed what she called "the dear body, every inch of which I know and love so utterly...
...bell in the church belfry rang soon after light, just as Lyle took his muffins out of the Garland gas stove and served the engineer, who ate and ran, maddeningly, without divulging the reason for his stay. In a town short on stimulant, such intelligence could have been dear...
...body and mouth to him, but not yet her wavering right arm. The hand pauses in midair, uncertain whether or how to commit, then grasps firmly at the hem of Jim's jacket-the gesture of a little girl lost, holding for what's left of her dear life on to her image of manhood, of the father who deserted her in infancy. It is an aching moment, beautifully realized...