Word: gone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could be a death warrant. I do not know of a single alcoholic who has successfully gone back to "social" drinking. I have known many who tried...
Proud Example. As Israelis awakened to the news of the rescue, excitement and pride rippled through the country. Gone was the humiliating feeling of helplessness with which they had lived through most of the week, as it increasingly appeared that the skyjackers would get their way. Clearly exultant was Minister Without Portfolio Gideon Hausner, who declared: "We have again provided the whole world with an example of how terrorism could be resisted and should be resisted." Exclaimed Minister of Tourism Moshe Kol: "We have to do the impossible...
...seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, representing the sole survival of animal life on this earth?a melancholy 'bug.' " By then, of course, man may have moved on to other worlds, friendlier solar systems. But the stowaways will have gone along...
...locker room, perhaps the last defensible male bastion in journalism, has gone coed. Since the National Hockey League broke the ice last year, more and more pro teams are admitting women to the sanctuaries of sweat. It is perhaps the biggest breakthrough for female scribes since Jane Swisshelm became the first woman reporter to invade the congressional press gallery more than a century...
That morning I had found a note and a road map tacked to the door of a house in Black Mountain, N.C., where some friends of mine lived, a note which said "We've gone to Sliding Rock. Come!" with directions. Those directions had ended me up in this pick-up, and just around the corner was "my river," where Sliding Rock was. I had seen the gleam of contentment on the faces of those who knew about Sliding Rock before--to people who live in the mountains the Rock is what a mud slide is to otters...