Word: lating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOME YEARS AGO, a Harvard undergraduate forgot to turn in his study card on time. Sometime in late March, a good six weeks or so after the deadline, he received a letter from the Registrar's office. He opened it with trepidation, fearful of astronomical fines or even stiffer disciplinary sanctions...
...unusual latitude to a director; indeed the dramatist himself provided it with the subtitle What You Will. But whoever painted the wooden sign outside the AST grounds went too far in calling the play The Twelfth Night; perhaps he came to work from watching The Seventh Dawn on the Late Late Show...
...Bringing him up again is like poking a dying frog to see if you can get one last jump out of him." But the man undoubtedly still arouses extremes of feeling. Distaste, contempt and even hatred rise almost reflexively in many Americans at the sound of his voice. The late Stewart Alsop, attempting to explain this automatic reaction to Nixon, once told the story of an argument he had about Franklin Roosevelt. Young Alsop had his collegiate defenses of F.D.R. demolished by a rectilinear old Republican who declared: "A man who does not dislike and distrust Franklin Roosevelt by instinct...
...bright side of the orthodox wisdom is that growth will resume, moderately, in the second half of next year and the economy will not suffer a credit crunch but only a squeeze late this year and early next. In the New York financial community, the betting is that interest rates will go up a bit more, but not much; that Miller will get the money supply under control; that loan demand will fall as the economy slows; that Government borrowing will be heavy, but enough money will be left to meet the reduced borrowing demands of most?...
...this year, Navratilova became the scourge of the women's tour. By the end of March, she had won seven straight tournaments. Chris, an old friend, met the slimmer (145 Ibs.) and newly determined Martina in a Wimbledon warmup at the English seaside resort town of Eastbourne in late June. Navratilova won that stirring duel, serving notice that her resurgence was for real...