Word: ellision
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only a few years ago, such a vote would have been almost unthinkable. Most college academics thought of themselves as intellectuals whose interests could hardly be equated with those of organized labor-or even with such lower-level colleagues as public-school teachers. All that has changed across the country...
For a team that had been widely expected to win eight games straight, the triumph was somewhat less than overwhelming. The Russians outscored Team Canada in total goals, 32 to 31, and actually outplayed them on Canadian ice during the first half of the series. In the final four games...
His interest in politics is entirely practical. Recalling that his forebears emigrated from Poland, Elstein observes, "When they came in from Ellis Island, they needed jobs and homes. Often the first person to help them was the local Democratic politician. The party provided a bridge between the ordinary citizen and...
A country girl actually raised in a log cabin in Elba, Ala. ("We used to go fishing for mud fish in the Pea River -that's what it was called"), Cornelia heard constant talk of politics from her twice-widowed mother, Ruby Folsom Ellis Austin,* who served as official...
Christopher Ellis and Verna Harvey, however, are radiant and accomplished as the children, and Brando, 20 years on from Stanley Kowalski, still has the presence to make bullying cruelty captivating.