Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stroot, who is on the membership committee, volunteered that Henry's Hideaway had had to evict only one drunk in the six months it has been open. "He's probably here. I'll point him out. Well, I guess he isn't. He's usually hanging all over that gal there in the back...
...guess is that the second one will have less. In the first debate the President had the image of faltering, and image is what counts in these things. By this time everyone knows the candidates' positions, and the candidates have a standard response for every charge. There isn't that kind of golden kazoo or gimmick that is going to solve your problems. Who won the debate isn't what's important. And it wouldn't be as easy to make that judgment this time. The real question is what will be the views...
...BLUNT ISN'T exactly the word for much of the humor in the text itself. Crude, maybe, or perhaps gross. Styled as a basic "women's literature" textbook, Titters 101 is the image of the abused high school volume, in which every kind of girl wrote notes to her friends and herself. With underlinings in blue and hand-written scribblings in the margins, the book tries its damnedest to give the illusion of being used. Starry-eyed, worldly wise, crude and prude alike have scrawled in the margins. A sampling...
...slow response time that Reagan showed in the debate is not uncommon among older people. Said Dr. James Spar, a geriatrics psychiatrist at UCLA: "It's the kind of forgetfulness that when you reach back for a fact, it isn't there. But 20 minutes later, it comes back to you." Stress, not age, may explain Reagan's slips. "Any of us could be capable of that kind of performance live on national TV," said Dr. William Applegate, a geriatrics expert at the University of Tennessee...
...effect on how people say they are going to vote is zero." Some point out, in a kind of backhanded defense of their boss, that he was mentally loose and sometimes sloppy with facts even when he was young. But that does not settle the question. "The real danger isn't that [his debate miscues] connote an age problem," said former Reagan Campaign Manager John Sears. "They raise questions about his competence...