Word: enterances
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...around California. Wistfully, lightly, the author recollects arriving in San Francisco as a 25-year-old in 1969. "In the Haight-Ashbury, I rented a cheap flat and furnished it a la mode with a massive stereo and a mattress on the floor. Something new and exciting seemed to enter my orbit almost daily -- seven-grain bread, Zen meditation, the pungent smell of eucalyptus leaves. There was an earthquake, 4.7 on the Richter scale ... And one night at the Fillmore Auditorium, while Janis Joplin was wailing on stage, a girl in a see-through blouse ran up and kissed...
Phrases like these -- or worse -- will probably never enter the realm of polite discourse, and perhaps that is just as well. Still, some instances of slang can gain such acceptance that they become useful as colloquialisms and even enter Standard English over time -- for example, blizzard, disk jockey and gadget...
...wolf he hits whole driving on a snowy night in Vermont. He doesn't think anything about it until his senses become more attuned; he can hear people whispering in other parts of his office building and has a zoom sort of vision which hones in on his "prey." Enter spoiled rich girl whose rebellious life has annoyed her publishing magnate father; falling in love with her father's newly-fired employee and soon-to-be arch enemy would be the ultimate in rebellion. There you have it: "Wolf" is one cliched plot turn after another. We've seen...
...will return participants a fat $60,000. In Missouri the info-highway patrol has targeted an unlicensed stockbroker who "trades" unregistered stocks on the information highway. More than two dozen additional cases are currently under investigation in seven different states.parparWhat's the best scam you've seen in cyberspace? Enter your submission in the folder, NETSCAMS: CYBER SURFERS BEWARE. The author of what is, in our humble opinion, the best, will win a much coveted TIME DAILY TSHIRT and 10 hours of free AOL. Who won the last contest? DASCAL, who knew that Camilla Parker Bowles husband...
Davis and Braunstein entered the office using akey she had retained from her council tenure. Butshe told Braunstein and Mathews that a councilmember she refused to identify had given her thekey and permission to enter...