Word: guess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton. Along with, I guess, Dartmouth and Yale, the curse of the Harvard football program since the Class of '83 first arrived in Cambridge four autumns...
Finally, editors could make all novels more readable--and space saving--by removing confusing and lengthy words. Throughout Great Expectations. Dickens relies upon "countenance" and "visage." Great Expectation, as you might guess, would employ something far simpler. "Face" comes immediately to mind...
...President's program," though he opposed Reagan's tax increase and concedes that benefits like food stamps are essential for the truly needy in Mississippi. "Maybe I'm different from most who call themselves Republicans around here," he says. "I'm a populist person, I guess." Clark rails against Reaganomics but supports a balanced budget, a strong defense and a vibrant private sector...
...reporter for The New Yorker. Although he gave up his staff job, Updike and the magazine have remained best of friends. Fees paid for his fiction and other contributions over the years allowed Updike to keep on writing, freeing him from the need to look for teaching jobs: "I guess you could say The New Yorker has been my substitute for a university." On his own, he then began to grow up in public view. Early dust-jacket photographs and publicity stills caught the young novelist and poet as a newly fledged bird, all beak, startled eyes and unruly plumage...
...video-tape-machine owners record TV shows at home? A critical case tests the legality of the legislative veto, a device in some 200 laws that allows Congress to disapprove regulations issued by federal agencies. And in cases to be argued this week the Justices may have to second-guess the Reagan Administration's decision last January no longer to support the IRS policy of denying tax exemptions to private schools and colleges that discriminate against nonwhites...