Word: fended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is to be gained by such a transparent attempt to fend off the tax collector with the Bible? Hardenburgh's residents figure that dramatizing the absurdity of the situation will bring relief in the form of less generous exemption laws. Declares Town Supervisor Lester Bourke: "We are seeking salvation...
...when Trane died in 1967, leaving Tyner to fend for himself, the mellow piano player turned vicous. He stayed that way right through the early portion of the 1970s. Albums like "sama Layuca" and "Song of the New World" lost that pleasing sound that he had created with Trane...
...reasons. Though John Cabot had scouted the shores of North America as early as 1497, the English hardly deigned to look at their discovery until after 1551 when the wool market in Antwerp fell apart. The first plantations were get-rich-quick schemes, the colonists left to fend for themselves if they did not produce a quick return on investment. Occasionally, as the book amply illustrates, the greed was enlivened by some remarkable characters, like the 18th century Governor of New York, Lord Cornbury, a flaming transvestite who prowled his fort in women's finery...
After several chapters of pseudo-sophisticated dialogue and self-flagellating self-analysis, the inevitable happens: while jogging in Central Park, Oliver finally meets a girl who seems to break through the veil of rudeness he uses to fend off the world. But if you cried when Ali McGraw angelically faded out in the film version of Love Story, fear not. Marcie, heiress-apparent to the former all-Ivy wing, is no match for Jennifer Cavilleri. She is, however, outrageously rich, mysterious, athletic and beautiful. Oliver's first comment about her is that she has a "fantastic ass." Obviously, Oliver...
Thomson said he would like to know "what it's like being a Presidential press secretary, and what the difference is from switching from one side of the fence as a reporter to the other side, having to fend off reporters...