Word: dike
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--The prosecutor in Michael K. Deaver's perjury trial said yesterday the former presidential aide's conviction is only a "thumb in the dike" against the flood of influence peddling in Washington...
...neither entirely broad and general (like the preamble) nor entirely specific and detailed, subjects it to misuse by those such as Bork. Our only recourse now, almost 200 years after the Bill of Right's ratification, is to deny those who would misuse it the chance to sit on Dike's throne...
...survived throughout the years, the magazine which or casionally emanates from the building has undergone major changes. Lampoons during the 1920's and 1930's were filled with slapstick cartoons and pieces that have been called racist and elitist. In the 50's under the leadership of John Up dike '54 and George Plimpton '48, the magazine aspired in Updike's words to be a serious literary magazine...
...number of years the licensing fees from the National Lampoon were like the fingers in the dike, saving the Harvard Lampoon adds...
From the top of the dike the plain looked endless, colorless, with a few bare trees, a row of crooked telegraph poles, and half a dozen or so huts marking the view of the terrain but failing to interrupt its flatness and lack of color. The sound of a shepherd's reed in the distance made his small flock of sheep and goats visible. The goats separated themselves from the sheep seemingly by following the sound of their own bells. But there wasn't even a small patch of green, and what the animals fed on couldn't be anything...