Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quibbling aside, Lewis's biography of Edith Wharton is important, in the first place, for its insistence on Wharton's full-bodied humanity, displayed in her "capacity for deep and abiding friendship" and her vulnerability to the losses that marked the course of her long and productive life. Edith Wharton...
Marked as a comer during Watergate hearings but has done little since ... A good compromise bet to woo the South and appease the liberals, and popular through the Middle West besides ... Sturdy, vigorous, everybody's second choice ... Biggest drawback: his nomination could cost the G.O.P. a precious Senate seat...
Taking up the clubs, he began a "threeclub cascade." He then "exchanged" the clubs for three others his roommate, John Plimpton '78 held, tossing them one at a time over the ten feet separating the two jugglers, while each marked time with the two remaining clubs.
Five successive saves by Rhodes marked an ardent three-minute assault on the Radcliffe goal. The barrage culminated in Emily Goodfellow's third tally, a crackblast which hopped over Rhodes' outstretched stick at 23:20.
"Kissinger has driven out Schlesinger," Peter M. Lange, assistant professor of Government, said yesterday, adding that the "marked difference of opinion" between the two officials on detente with the Soviet Union was the main cause of Schlesinger's dismissal.