Word: markedness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IN PANAMA, the line between Tradition and Progress is marked in the grass. Abruptly, as you reach Cristobol on the edge of the American Canal Zone, the jungle--steaming, ennervating, thick with history and bananas--gives way to the manicured lawns. And the golf fairways. "There are golf courses in...
At 38, West has thrown himself into coaching with the same verve that marked his playing days. After the first Laker workout this fall, an exhausted West came down with the flu and was unable to make the second day of practice. Explains Center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, only half jokingly...
Hanging In. Haley moved into a basement apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village and tried to support himself as a freelance writer. "Everyone I knew was saying 'Writing is nice, but why don't you get a job?' I owed everyone. One day a friend called with a...
There are even some perversely approving things to be said for slavery: that in its earliest form, it actually marked a humanitarian improvement in the laws of war, since it involved the capture of prisoners instead of their slaughter. Oddly, it was not a primitive practice, in one sense, because...
Each period marked an improvement in the freshmen. When Maniekis opened the second period with a score after a Merrimack penalty it was apparent that the big line of Paul Mangano, Bob Kelly and Jake Thain was finally cooking; Mangano and Kelly assisting on the play.