Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...electromagnetic radiation, emanating from dense "threads" of pure energy called cosmic strings, could have been responsible for making the universe lumpy. That pressure, the theory holds, pushed matter outward, piling it into thin shells and leaving huge voids in the cosmos. "If this theory is correct," says Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, the theory's co-author, "our views about cosmic-scale structure will be radically changed...
...sense of Billy's repertoire during his last 15 days at the keyboard; several pages of song titles follow, including Beethoven's Mignonette in G, the Pilgrim's Chorus from Tan Houser and Pomp and Circumference March. The sharpie who egged Billy on to this fatal enterprise was named Jeremiah Feldfloh, which Ellen has trouble getting right; she tries Flyblow, Fieldflow, Freeflow, Feelflo, Fallfly, Flowflaw and numerous other permutations, most suggesting the evanescence of entrepreneurship...
Democrat Richard Shelby narrowly defeated incumbent Jeremiah Denton. Guy Hunt, however, became the state's first Republican governor since Reconstruction...
...IRRELEVANT is whether the couple had been sexually intimate before. Are we to assume that once a woman sleeps with someone she is rightfully his thereafter? This attitude is only a more modern version of the one exhibited by those who oppose the criminalization of spousal rape. Alabama Senator Jeremiah Denton couldn't have put this offensive idea more eloquently: "When a man gets married he expects he's going to get a little...
...appeal of the Reagan message has no doubt helped the Southern branch of the class of '80, ultraconservative Republicans with unremarkable first-term records, like Mack Mattingly of Georgia and Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. The latest polls show Mattingly leading his underfunded liberal rival, Congressman Wyche Fowler, by 18 points. The factious and disorganized Democratic Party in Alabama has been unable to help Congressman Richard Shelby wage an effective attack; he trails Denton by nearly 25 points...