Word: lefting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest Blankie scare was just last September. I arrived safely at school, but my trusty fabric companion was inadvertantly left at home. (Note the passive voice.) "Mom!" I begged on the phone that night. "Send Blankie fast...
...weeks ago I finally admitted that Blankie had really begun to smell. The stench in my room wasn't coming just from my roommate's rain pants left over from FOP. Maybe Blankie wouldn't have minded if I washed him just once...
...addition to rent control and development, incumbent Wolf saw city finances as a serious problem to be addressed in the election. She said the federal government has left too many human services to the city, creating pressure for higher revenues...
...that telegraph every movement of the hand directly to the machine. The helmet is equipped with a pair of stereoscopic TV projectors, one for each eye, that are carefully coordinated so that a slight turn of the head to the right will shift the entire synthetic world to the left...
...music she heard, and the music Parker urged her to make, that brought her out of herself. She was making demo tapes the night she heard that Parker had ODed. But he had left her a legacy: a little self-confidence. And some hard luck. Her first album, released in 1974, is still treasured as one of the seminal singer-songwriter testaments of the decade. There were enervating legal problems over record deals. Her subsequent releases turned unfocused, uncertain. And there were personal tragedies. Snow's daughter Valerie was born with brain damage in 1975. Music was no longer...