Word: funning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MUSIC: Treats from a fun funk Detroit band...
...Harvard hockey team began the 1986-87 season with a school-record 15 straight victories. But the Elis ruined the fun with a 4-2 triumph at Ingalls Rink in New Haven, Conn...
...have been romanticized by some as "fabulous, fun" times. However, even a superficial but full historical account of the times will show the 50 s as a time which was indeed painful, complicated and even life threatening for people of color. Civil rights were non-existent. Blacks did not vote or sit side-by-side with their fellow human beings in public places. Martin Luther King was actively engaged in the struggle for equality of all people. Women were mostly treated as sex objects. The portrayal of the 50 s in the light of this flier unintentionally excluded the experience...
...humor has served her well in politics. In her campaign stump speech, she regularly poked fun at herself, telling audiences that, if recognized at all, she is confused with Mrs. George Shultz. After the Ferraro crack, she opted for an immediate apology and told reporters that "the poet laureate has retired." Though public criticism of her hair, weight and wrinkles have hurt her, she has turned such remarks to her advantage. After her hair turned white in her early 30s, she began dyeing it "warm brown," although it was a nuisance for someone who swam frequently and shampooed every...
...happens, are having a dialogue, somewhat testy, thoroughly familiar. It is 7:35 on a chilly morning in late fall, and I am swinging an 8-lb. splitting maul, breaking up oak and birch trunks. Myself is feeling sorry for himself. Our back is stiff from yesterday's firewood fun. Our right wrist, broken years ago in a skiing accident, signals that it is time to stop. Middle-aged men drag themselves through life like wounded bears, it occurs...