Word: dears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reagan, dressed in his jodhpurs and $1000 riding boots, entered the cabinet room, where various advisers and cabinet officers were assembled, grim-faced, around the table. "I'm sorry about that plate, dear," Reagan said to his wife, who had followed him into the room...
...around for half an hour or more in front of the cameras. And anyway, most Americans are very good about assuaging their guilt without parting with cash. No, what does it for Jerry's kids is this--his annual show is an affirmation of most every value near and dear to a great mass of countrymen known, inadequately, as Middle America, people who feel a sense of community, or increasingly, people who once did and wish they could again; they are the ones who join Jerry in his work. For he takes every virtue they understand and uses it, every...
...first to read, and like, the manuscript was an older struggling writer who was teaching there: Kurt Vonnegut. "A dear, dear man," says Irving of his longtime friend, "enormously decent, generous and wise." By this time John was married to Shyla, had a son and was just about making ends meet by bartending in Iowa City and selling peanuts and banners at college football games. In The Water-Method Man, a wily spoof of academe, he offered a forlorn description of the job: "I lug a large plywood board from gate to gate around the stadium. The board is wide...
...Dear_________: This is notice that I intend to remove you from your position of Air Traffic Control Specialist ..." So begins the letter, signed by Federal Aviation Administration supervisors- that has been mailed to more than 11,000 striking air-traffic controllers since President Reagan ordered them fired beginning Aug. 5. The Administration was relying on two solid legal justifications...
...Well, dear lady, think again. The well-dressed woman may once have considered a metallic accessory to be on the order of rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Beyond that, anything more than a gold-accent belt or an evening clutch in gold thread was generally regarded as rather tacky. Now, however, the fashion industry has struck a mother lode in a new sort of metallics. The season's liveliest accessories-belts, buckles, totes, handbags, scarves, T shirts, sandals, shoes and hats-are flashing and gleaming with finishes of gold, silver, bronze, copper, pewter and even anthracite. Nor does...