Word: dears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Come with us once again to those dear dead days when the world seemed young and in danger of not being able to grow old; when Johnny Jock and Suzie Coed had casual sex and political principles; when their undeferred buddies were spilling blood on foreign soil; when a Republican President could inflame humanists simply by waving nuclear sabers at the Russkies. Ladies and gentlemen . . . the Seventies! All together now: "Up on your feet,/ Press all your points,/ Eat Germ of Wheat,/ Toke on your joints,/ Ev'rybody do the Doonesbury Drag...
...This tour will show most of the world that our dear Cambridge-based company is of international significance," Wheeler said...
...four years, his only significant appearance came during the last National Football Conference championship game at Washington, after Starter Danny White was knocked unconscious in the first half. Hogeboom rallied the Cowboys dramatically, and while he ended up throwing two fatal interceptions, he put people in mind of the dear, departed Roger Staubach. Since Staubach retired, Dallas and White have lost three N.F.C. championship games...
Once more unto the breach, dear friends once more; or close the score up to cover the point spread. The Cross is but a team as Harvard is. The ball bounces for it as it doth for us; the clock shows to it as it doth to us; all its players have but human conditions. Its victories laid by, in its nakedness it appears but a team...
There was no morning call from Stockholm; Barbara McClintock does not have a phone. Instead, the 81-year-old geneticist learned the news by radio. "Oh, dear," she is said to have murmured. And having pronounced that judgment, the diminutive (5-ft., 100-lb.) scientist donned her usual attire-baggy dungarees, a man-tailored shirt and sturdy oxfords-and stepped out for her usual morning walk through the woods near Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island. As usual, she gathered walnuts along the way. Winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine seemed no reason to alter her schedule...