Word: moore
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...slip where the lighters used to moor (the ferry Ellis Island, scuttled by decay after logging 1 million nautical miles crossing to Manhattan, now lies beneath the water there), two deckhands on a workboat sprawl out sunning themselves. "Everywhere you look there's a study team combing over something. I'm surprised they ain't started strip-searching us yet. Everything's historic! Jeez, I bet I'd get busted if I tried to take a damn Coke bottle off this island...
First: I' faith, methinks I spied Master Garvey among the groundlings to see Paul Winfield play the tragical Moor in Othello on the very eve that the Padres clinchethed the westernmost division of the National League...
...Ritgen, as for most veterans, the war is never far from mind. On a trip to Scotland last year, he visited Culloden Moor, the site of the last battle fought between the English and the Scots. Says he: "I would like to think that Normandy began the last battle between West Europeans. It was the start of a new Europe in which we have had 40 years of peace...
...center's value to Harvard wouldn't have been clear until the center had been established," said Moor...
...suddenly the deciding issue has become a moor one, a nationwide amendment drive which failed five months ago. A campaign which had offered refreshingly concrete, but entirely different roads to prosperity has veered into left field. The race which pitted a fiscally and socially conservative Reaganite against a popular, traditional liberal has transformed into a fight between a Democrat and what one Detroit newspaper described as "an ogre...