Word: detective
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...detect that our people are getting more excited as it comes down to the wire," Cook said, adding, "As the season progresses a lot of Kirkland people will begin to smell the Straus...
...Barrett able to penetrate the reserve. For example, Reagan talked candidly with Barrett last week about the abrupt firing of Campaign Manager John Sears. "To someone following the Reagan camp so closely, the departure did not come as a complete sur prise," said Barrett. "Two weeks earlier you could detect a decided cooling of the Reagan-Sears relationship." Barrett therefore had a head start in investigating the shake-up and even managed to inter view William Casey before he was in stalled as Sears' successor. Barrett also found an opportunity to share some of his insights with a newcomer...
Lloyd said "an awful lot of people" do not seek medical aid for impotence because they do not want to undergo lengthy psychotherapy. However, physicians can detect hormonal abnormalities through blood tests and restore full potency through medical treatment of hormonal imbalances, the study concludes...
...candidate for President, and will not become one. Unless . . . well, says Gerald Ford, "if my party should happen to want me to be a candidate, of course I would accept the opportunity." And what are the chances of that? "Remote," Ford concedes. But when asked if he can detect any "groundswell" among Republicans for him, he replies, "It is loud enough to be heard...
Heaney fuses this dichotomy so convincingly it's difficult to detect it. His indissoluable phrases and sounds don't reflect the labor he has given his verse-making. Each poem artfully avoids the simplistic on the one hand and the obstentatiously convoluted on the other--two qualities that dominate contemporary poetry...