Word: goldberg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idioms used by 40% of twins because they feel lonely or playful or both. Twins usually give it up at age three. But Gracie and Ginny were discovered at six, still unable to speak English. They had an apparent vocabulary of hundreds of exotic words stuck together in Rube Goldberg sentence structures and salted with strange half-English and half-German phrases. The preposition out became an active verb: "I out the pudatoo-ta" (I throw out the potato salad). Potato could be said in 30 different ways. Linguists, speech pathologists and educators hoped the twins' private communication would...
...second doubles, Miki Kagan and Sarah Nicholas lost to Fran Troy and Beth Goldberg 6-4, 4-6, 5-7, in the afternoon's most exciting match. Felske said Kagan and Nicholas played "pretty well, but they were a little tight at the beginning," adding, "the match see-sawed back and forth the whole...
...opened before the end of the harvest, more than 200,000 bushels of grain will have to be stored on the ground. In the open, as much as 25% of the crop could be lost through damage during the winter. "It's just terrible," complains Richard Goldberg, president of Goldberg Feed & Grain in West Fargo, N. Dak. "I have contracts for sales through Duluth that I can't fill because there is no grain moving through here, and it's impossible to get transportation to other ports...
...Atlanta attorney. Such views are by no means universal, however. "I sense people still have faith in Carter's leadership," said Joyce Peters, Democratic chairwoman of Bexar County in Texas. "I believe he is stronger in the country than is being perceived." Agreed Texas State Democratic Chairman Billy Goldberg: "Carter is still seen as the guy who sticks with a tough problem...
Although she danced in high school productions, Goldberg drifted away from dance in college. She was a political science major at Boston University and very active in the antiwar movement. Only in her senior year did she begin to take modern dance lessons again...