Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suddenly broke loose and hustled up to the corner to join two other children waiting for their bus. "Hey, maybe we missed it," he was telling them before long, beginning to strut and lecture like a little headmaster himself. "We missed that bus, I'm telling you. It's gone," he kept repeating. And after 20 years, blacks and whites in the cities are still fussing over buses, it struck...
...Dalkey Archive (1964) and The Third Policeman (1967) only the first and the last deserve the title "Modern Classics," with which they have now been honored with by Penguin. Stories and Plays, published posthumously this year, is a dish of leftovers, most of which have long since gone stale, offered up by O'Brien's publishers to feed the now-open mouth of American literati...
Carter, who publicly projects the most populist image of any presidential candidate in recent memory, has gone about the task of assembling his cadre of policy advisors in an eclectic manner--and on such a large scale--that makes it difficult to tell which players will still be with the team if Carter wins the election...
Harvard overpowered Columbia in the first half, taking an early 7-0 lead with less than four minutes gone in the game. After Lou Bernieri recovered a Columbia fumble on the Lions' first play from scrimmage, quarterback Jim Kubacki needed just four plays to produce the Crimson's first touchdown of the season...
...public examination by the House Ethics Committee, which immediately dropped its probe into how Ray earned her $14,000 salary, but he still faces legal problems over the matter from a grand jury probe and a Justice Department investigation. As for Liz, she insisted that she never would have gone public with her relationship with Hays had she known it "would mushroom into such a gigantic thing...