Word: irregulars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...translation: public service commercial. "If you have found the book amusing," says Durrell, "and if you appreciate the fact that the world, and its wildlife, is being steadily and ruthlessly decimated ... I wonder if you would like to help us ... at the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust?" The proposal is irregular, but Durrell has put his money where his myth is: in a wildlife organization and a private zoo on his home isle of Jersey in the English Channel. There, hundreds of endangered species are kept in safety. Many of them are odd, but in the author's view...
...pool which the planning committee placed as its first priority, replaced the old pool at the Indoor Athletic Building which was built in the 20s and was at the time in poor condition and extremely overcrowded during peak swimming hours, forcing swim teams to practice at irregular shifts...
...major influence on rock musicians in the 1960s and 1970s; of cancer; in Houston. A contemporary and peer of such blues artists as Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Hopkins' high-pitched voice sang sardonically about pain, suffering and death while his fingers played a hard-driving bass in irregular rhythms. He recorded more than 100 singles and wrote about 600 songs...
Language professors would be asked to translate passage of literature and conjugate irregular verbs, while economics professors would have to explain the Reagan administration's "recovery" program...
Hughes-Hallett recalls having to convince "several people in University Hall" in 1970 to let her hire undergraduates, and being told it would be "a highly irregular thing to do." "I may have been the first," she says. But over a decade the practice has spread to science and computer courses--especially Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing," and Applied Math 110, "Introduction to Computer Programming...