Word: letters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter sent to Gov. Michael S. Dukakis on Wednesday, Vellucci invited the Democratic presidential candidate to attend a City Council meeting "on a Monday evening at your earliest convenience," and lead the Council in the Pledge of Allegiance...
...summer, a group of Westinghouse engineers outfitted Garman with an infrared sensor that moves a computer screen's cursor in response to his blinking. For the first time since his illness struck, Garman has been able to communicate with family and friends. His first words, painstakingly spelled out one letter at a time...
...Collins Sets the Pick: Harvard senior Kevin Collins, a two-time varsity basketball letter winner, made this week's Most Notable Unnoted Play of the Week...
...distress and mental depression that he experienced during the spring of 1987: "In order to recover what I had lost, I had to go back to the moment of origin." To an inveterate novelist, apparently, telling the truth is a manifestation of disorienting illness. More troubling, there is that letter to Zuckerman at the beginning and, at the end of this presumptive exercise in candor, the imaginary Zuckerman's lengthy and negative critique of what he has just read. The facts may be here, all right, but they are carefully hedged with fictions...
...addition to its philatelic collection: a stamp illustrating July's shootdown of an Iranian airliner by a U.S. warship. One such stamp came in the mail this month to International Pressure Service, a maker of high-tech aerospace equipment based in Urbana, Ohio. Inappropriately enough, the envelope contained a letter from an Iranian engineering professor requesting price and delivery information on material used in building aircraft...