Word: letterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...date the head cheerleader, drive the reddest Corvette in the parking lot, and wear his varsity letter jacket to sleep each night--all while pulling straight...
...settle into the granite bleachers by themselves. Beth is not having a good day. Her friend Ingrid won't admit that she's mad at her, but Beth was supposed to go hang out at her house after school and Ingrid left without her. And Beth wrote her a letter that Ingrid never responded to. Worse, Steve's friends have been giving him shit about fooling around with a 15-year-old, and Beth isn't sure when she'll see him again...
...Cast a wide net, scrabble up and down from period to period, a scale intimate like Proust's madeleine and yet grand and popular. How did people do this before? Should I Mach Three today, or go for a barbershop shave with strop and blade? Send someone a letter, or an e-mail? Do I touch-type it up, or take out the typewriter, and probably wrangle with the ribbon far less than I'd sweat blood over a smug squat printer? But, no, it isn't just efficiency, isn't it the pre-modern satisfaction of unfamiliar physical immediacy...
...mail and a follow-up phone call to the parents will fulfill the requirements. If, however, the company plans to pass the information on to another party (usually some sort of marketing group, for a steep price) a more formal notification of consent will be required, like a letter via regular mail, a fax or another, more futuristic identification method, such as a "digital signature." Each company can decide which medium works best for their purposes...
Stephen Helfer, recalling the general consensus among his friends in the '50s, concludes in his letter ("Tobacco Risks Widely Known," Oct. 14), "For as long as anyone can remember, smoking has been thought to be very harmful...