Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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No doubt young Johnny was spoiled in a manner befitting his position as the youngest in a large family. "None of my friends were allowed to eat as much candy as me," he remembers with glee. This indulgence has left him with a marked weakness for such caloric luxuries as...
Ornstein believes that the majority of this Congress, having come to their positions in a political decade marked by corruption and cynicism at the top, often look down the Hill when Carter speaks and instinctively declare themselves against the President unless he can prove them wrong. Deliberation, debate and even...
Last Tuesday Strout almost missed his weekly transformation. The day marked his 35th anniversary as TRB and his 80th as Richard Strout. He was toasted at breakfast by 30 capital colleagues, before lunch by his friends at the New Republic and after lunch at the Monitor, where Reader Jimmy Carter...
DIED. Theresa Weld Blanchard, 84, who became America's first ladies' figure-skating champion in 1914, and won nine U.S. gold medals with Partner Nathaniel Niles during her reign as "Queen of the Ice" in the 1920s and 1930s; of cancer; in Boston. Rebelling against the constrained motions...
His work had a categorical, no-nonsense air to it. Davis was a man of marked intellectual energy, and all his transactions as an artist-with subject matter, sources, influences and his constantly explored ideas on the use of art in the real world-were unwobbling and straightforward. He wanted...