Word: letting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hark! A thought! It concerns, let's see, umbrellas, and?what's this??feet...
When Baker began to write the "Observer," he says, he had no notion that failure was a possibility, only a determination not to let his columns fall into an easily identifiable category. "You get onto a columnist, you know. There's foxy grandpa, there's the font of wisdom, there's Mr. Inside Information, and I was trying to mix it up, like a junk-ball pitcher in baseball keeping them off balance." He laughs. "You get older and lose your fastball and there's more junk. It was easy to be angry, but I felt you couldn...
...Lewis Grizzard, 32, sports editor of the Chicago Sun-Times before he began his column at the Atlanta Constitution two years ago. Since then Grizzard has written lightly about such matters as tennis etiquette ("Never wear hats advertising farm or earth-moving equipment or T shirts that say 'Let's boogie' "), advice to riders of subways ("Swallow your wallet before entering the train"), and his town's present appearance ("Atlanta looks like what Sherman would have left if he had been carrying bulldozers and jack-hammers"). Grizzard will begin syndication to half a dozen...
...Americans were able to let their hair down over imported water, Prohibition might have succeeded. The cocktail party surely would never have been invented, no man would ever have insulted his boss, no woman would ever have been indiscreet ... I miss all these things at the im-ported-water parties nowadays, with their dedicated guests on lonesome pursuits sturdily keeping their hair up. Next morning, of course, there is a clear head but very little worth remembering in life...
...porches. As dusk deepened, the lightning bugs came out to be caught and bottled. One night I was allowed to stay up until the stars were in full command of the sky. A woman of great age was dying in the village, and it was considered fit to let the children stay abroad into the night. As four of us sat there we saw a shooting star and someone said, "Make a wish...