Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to students, the man who came to the outside door was not wearing a mask and "seemed pretty normal." The first man then held the door as the four masked men stormed inside, they said...
...man-up situation was horrible. We had 10 opportunities and only converted one. That's the story of the game right there," Freed said...
...into the bank to make insured deposits but in a classic bait-and-switch were steered into buying uninsured securities issued by ACC to keep the institution afloat. In hearings held by the House Banking Committee, Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur of Ohio read a letter from a 65-year-old man who was persuaded by a Lincoln saleswoman that the ACC bonds were just as safe as insured certificates of deposit, paid a point more in interest, and ran only ten months. "If ACC goes under in ten months," she told him, "our whole economy is in trouble." Seven months later...
Psychologists say upwardly mobile Americans who turn to crack share personality traits that may make them vulnerable to the drug's siren call. Dr. Jeffrey Rosecan, director of the Cocaine Abuse Treatment Program at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, sketches a profile of the typical crack user: a man in his 30s or 40s, single or divorced, with a high- pressure job, little inner peace and a history of moderate drug use and heavy drinking. "They're extremists, hard drivers, workaholics," says Rosecan. "With an all-or-nothing personality and a history of drug experimentation...
...Although Giulio Pippi de'Giannuzzi was born in Rome, took the city's name, worked in Raphael's studio and, as a very young man, must have known both Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, it was in Mantua that he found his voice as an artist. As architect and painter to Federico II Gonzaga, he became Mantua's virtual artistic dictator in his 20s and remained so until he died at the early age of 47. There, projects poured from him in an undiverted stream: not only frescoes and panel paintings and the innumerable sketches that preceded them, but also...