Word: handbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter that the notion was as old as ancient Greece, as recent as the 1910 Boy Scouts Official Handbook; Americans make a specialty of reinventing the wheel every decade or so. The philosophy seized folks overnight, and the sport of mass running had begun. Suburbanites jogged
...right out of the Preppy Handbook. With tailgate parties lining the way to Soldiers Field and the stands filled with L.L. Bean products, the women's field hockey team outplayed Dartmouth Saturday morning, but ended up on the short end of a 2-1 score...
...Preppy Handbook would be proud," George Marcus, professor of political science at Williams, said smiling. And indeed, L.L. Bean sweaters, Lacoste shirts and chinos were out a the river in full force...
Rodriguez, who served last year as head of the committee on student life, said in his speech that he would concentrate his efforts on producing a "students' rights handbook" which would explain in detail the workings of the Ad Board...
...cruelest is to be published this week. Cat Hater's Handbook, subtitled The Ailurophobe's Delight (Avenel; $2.98) and illustrated by Tomi Ungerer, goes after cats as if they were creatures of the devil (some people think they are). Ailurophobe Author William Cole contends that cats are cruel, treacherous, unloving, smelly and parasitical. Cole assails the vaunted feline IQ, quoting a scientist at the American Museum of Natural History as saying that "a judgment from the literature would put the intelligence of cats below dogs and above rats." According to another researcher, the cat "is no philosopher...