Word: faired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know the 21 drinking age is the law but I still can't understand. If I'm old enough to get drafted, to be tried as a adult in court, and to see below Madonna's belly button, why can't I drink. It just doesn't seem fair. --Desperately Seeking Logi...
...career that spanned more than 50 years, he never let his standards or his audience down. He insisted that words, his own and others', should communicate rather than confuse: "When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair." He had no patience with the sloppy or faddish. The spreading misuse of the term hopefully drew a pithy rebuke: "This once useful adverb meaning 'with hope' has been distorted and is now widely used to mean 'I hope' or 'it is to be hoped.' Such use is not merely wrong...
...court. It is a major test for an ambitious prosecutor: if Giuliani can win enough convictions in these and other trials scheduled to begin during the next six months, he not only would deal a stunning blow to organized crime in America but also would deal himself a pretty fair hand for a high-stakes political career...
...fair, though, blame for its demise should be spread among several conspirators. Director Ted Kotcheff greedily sought to corner Quebec's French-Canadian market (Joshua was made and expected to flourish in Montreal) by casting Gabrielle Lazure, a French-Canadian starlet, in the lead role of Joshua's whitebread bedmate. This idea backfired, however, because the real Lazure has a strong accent, immediately conspicuous to the Montreal ear. To patch this up, her lines have been dubbed by a monotoned off-screen actress whose voice doesn't at all sound like it comes from Lazure's body. Plainly, a huge...
...hardly seems fair that one Harvard student might be warned, while another Harvard student might be expelled, for committing the same transgression. It is equally strange that Harvard continues to defend a disciplinary body that students won't even recognize as legitimate and that takes almost as long to figure out what it will do as it takes...