Word: heydays
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...bill containing full-family sanctions. As Maxey tells it, Smith then said, "We think we need to adopt the Governor's welfare reform. The Governor needs sanctions to protect himself against Pat Buchanan in the primaries." Smith says he told them only that Buchanan would have a "heyday" with their welfare proposal...
...slumber parties and scribbling frenzies in the margins of marbleized notebooks. His younger sister's friends squealed, "Your brother is the cutest one!" but Brian couldn't help but think, "Hey! Thirteen year-old girls - isn't that illegal?" He now speaks enthusiastically of Scrabble but in his heyday, Brian picked up that Dream Phone a little bit more than other boys his age. In his maturity, he confesses that the game is rather "stupid...
...there was always Schulz. "Peanuts" was his life, and we followed its arc in the lines he drew for the strip: Tentative at first, in "Li'l Folks," the proto-"Peanuts" comic started for the St. Paul Pioneer Press in 1947; bold, strong and in control it its 1960s heyday (even Linus lookedsecure); ragged in its final years. Somehow, even though we all knew what to expect - and what an ultimate betrayal that would have been, for Lucy to actually let Charlie Brown kick that football - we were always interested in the whole neurotic gang, and now that Charles Schulz...
...DateSite's heyday was short-lived. After getting over the initial excitement of a chance to reveal their crushes on the Pfoho-Open e-mail list, people soon forgot about the site...
...Keyes came to Harvard on the advice of Bloom, his mentor who left Cornell in disgust himself after the takeover. By the time Keyes arrived in Cambridge--after spending a year in Paris--the heyday of activism had passed. "The whole nature of the situation had calmed down," he says. "At Harvard I mainly concentrated on my work....That's when I did my most serious work, trying to think through political life in general," adds the candidate, a government concentrator whose favorite classes were the political theory offerings of Harvey C. Mansfield '53, now Kenan Professor of Government...