Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mark Chartrand, the owlish chairman of the Hayden Planetarium, is happy to unmask the manipulative strings attached to this particular wizard, a machine resembling a fat steel dumbbell, a monster with 9,000 eyes that moves eerily above the darkened floor of the planetarium. Explains Chartrand: "The machine moves the...
Jimmy Carter has surely marked that fact on his foreign policy agenda too.
Sordid past notwithstanding, the AAU's recent actions were marked by what seemed like a concerted effort to prevent the story from getting out. The convention at which the suspensions were levied ended on Dec. 3, 1978, and no announcement was made. On December 9, the New York Times broke...
The strong performance marked a clear contrast to the Crimson's first game out West, when Harvard lost to Brigham Young, 113-72, on Dec. 21. But Harvard coach Frank McLaughlin explained away the embarrassing final score as a matter of circumstance.
For the most part, however, mail-order buyers concentrated on lesser gifts that were both of practical use and lasting value. Five-year-old Atlanta-based Kaleidoscope Inc., which mailed 1 million catalogues, a weight of nine tons, found that an increasing number of women bought not only presents for...