Word: length
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...length, Toad moved on to an electric model, an IBM Selectric, and grew more rapturous still. Toad said the machine was like a small private printing press: the thoughts shot from his brain through his fingers and directly into flawless print...
...length Toad could see his own changes of mood in the handwriting. He could read haste when he had hurried. He thought that handwriting would make a fine lie-detector test, or a foolproof drunkometer. Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram...
...free-love guru known as Jones volunteers to help young Kate shed her virginity. She agrees in principle but falls asleep before the sexual samaritan finishes an overripe lecture on fecundity in nature. Simon's frankness is never gratuitous. A description of her own mistakes combines arm's-length wit with sobering historical detail: "My first was a New Jersey abortion, the result of drinking deeply of synthetic gin and romping with an anonymous beauty over house roofs and down some stairs or other, to roll on the grass in a nearby park." On the procedure itself: "The man, whose...
...length of fall reading period should not be a question of how the calendar happens to fall. It ought to have a set minimum length--14 days--and should not be arbitrarily sliced in the interest of expedient scheduling. The calendar must be worked around reading period and not vice-versa...
...first period Saturday, Harvard's Lisa Bailliere was the only player to score a goal, but the second stanza saw a Crimson deluge that included tallies by Amy Hartung, Karen Carney, Brita Lind, and--in a length-of-the-ice rush--Christine Burns...