Word: downing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether it was developed from loneliness or as a rebellious game or was simply a neurological accident, the twins' private communication has turned out to be something less than a true invented language. Linguists Meier and Newport now call Gracie and Ginny's speech "deformed English." What had...
In a sparkling tract home in San Diego's east end, rented partly with story-rights money, the twins settle down at the kitchen table after school for a rapid-fire game of clipping magazine pages and scribbling. "Can-I-haf-pen?" Gracie asks a visitor. "Inna gonna write...
The choice of Nevin, the Times reported, "surprised many business analysts," though none are named. "They said he resigned last month as Zenith's chairman and chief executive officer under somewhat cloudy circumstances." Meaning what? "Observers of Zenith" (these same "many" unnamed analysts, presumably) "said Mr. Nevin had probably...
But the icemen could not capitalize on the opportunity. Regulation time expired, then both Brown penalties expired, moments later, forcing the Crimson to play one man down during three minutes of the overtime. No sooner did Britz return than Mitch Olson departed: two minutes for tripping at 5:17 of...
Sad to say, Flatt muffed a chance to win the game in the final moments of the second overtime. With 36 seconds remaining and Harvard down, 79-78, guard Calvin Dixon penetrated to the middle of the lane and dumped a beautiful pass to Flatt under the basket--maybe being...