Word: handly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard never complained when Jellison decided to try his hand at Ivy League academics and athletics. Jellison was a hot commodity after having received All-State honors in football as a defensive back...
...Average mortgage rates have jumped over two points since January of 1978 to 11.2%, and in California, Colorado, Indiana and other places they are 13% or 14%. Monthly payments are often no longer listed in the handy books real estate agents carry, and salesmen have been forced to use hand-held calculators to compute the numbing bill. Residential loans in Washington, D.C., have virtually halted...
...trenches. A veteran, Katczinsky (Ernest Borgnine), teaches them the two essentials of staying alive - stealing food and killing Frenchies. Never use a bayonet, he says; while you are pulling it out of a man's stomach, his comrade will get you. A shovel, on the other hand, can take your enemy's head off in one quick motion, leaving you free to defend yourself. The veteran and Paul Baumer, the youthful narrator (Richard Thomas), grow together, like father and son; but in the end none of Katczinsky's advice can save either himself or the doomed class...
Although he charted the symptoms of the Age of Anxiety, Auden never seemed to have more than a mild case. His loss of faith in the Anglicanism of his childhood, his later disillusionment with Communism, his conversion back to Christianity were accomplished with no public hand wringing and left no visible scars. His emigration to the U.S. in 1939 raised charges that he had cravenly abandoned England's sinking ship; he stoically endured the abuse...
When uneven football games get out of hand, sacking the quarterback becomes an exercise that any number can play. That's the way it has been for Jimmy Carter since early in this political season. If Brezhnev, Castro, Schmidt, Begin and Lopez Portillo could do it, who's to stop William Safire...