Word: fends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sight. Texas horned toads can, when angry or excited, actually squirt blood from the corners of their eyes. No animal seems more, well, humane than the American lobster, as portrayed by Stewart. Most sea creatures are love-them-and-leave-them suitors, impregnating their mates, then allowing them to fend for themselves. Not the crustacean, whose mate must shed not only her defenses but her shell when she visits his underwater den. Sensing something about vulnerability, he lets her stay a week or more until her new shell is grown...
...during those four years Virtually all of us, however, sensed that we were participating in and contributing to a grand spectacle. At the end, when we had learned as much as could be taught of the particular tasks we had chosen to take up we were sent off to fend for ourselves in the wider commerce of the world...
...sacrifice their personal lives to the deal. As a result, almost all the top mergermakers are in their 30s or 40s. Jay Higgins, 38, the head of Salomon Brothers' merger department, spent six months working twelve hours a day nearly seven days a week to help Gulf Oil fend off a hostile takeover by a group of investors led by T. Boone Pickens' Mesa Petroleum. The payoff came when Gulf merged with Socal. "Don't get me wrong," says Higgins. "I'm not complaining. But you never know when a deal is going to be done...
...mourn, as they do for many things that graced a more leisurely and miraculous time. But baseball is also a reality, a game played by ungrammatical men who, like most people, have grown up without necessarily growing wise. They chew tobacco, indulge in alcoholic beverages and do not always fend off the groupies with the fervor expected of moral exemplars...
...more indurated snob than Balthus. One can follow his appetite for grandeur as the name evolves: plain Balthasar Klossowski to start, then Balthasar de Klossowski, then Klossowski de Rola, and now, in his eighth decade, the "Comte de Rola." The fact that he has been able to fend off inquiry about his origins for so long is a tribute to the alarm that this glacial, gifted and pretentious man inspires in the French. The ostensible aim of his facade is to fade away, like the Cheshire cat (Balthus is fond of cats), and leave only the work, like the grin...