Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paying customers adapted rather easily to this odd, contradictory atmosphere: grueling daytime practice and lessons, talking and living music, combined with nigh time lunacy. This was no kiddie camp, so there weren't curfews or parietals. And because we were stupid and inspired by our wacky role models, we stayed up incessantly-to bake early-morning bread, or contemplate the eternal under a sky-full of stars. Music was everything, but sex was more than everything. The outside world quickly faded, and no one read newspapers. We all turned vegetarian...
...force a rules change that would require only a simple majority rather than a three-fifths vote of the state legislature to approve a constitutional amendment. Pro-ERA forces waged a vigorous campaign in Oklahoma, where the amendment was thought to have the strongest chance for passage. Governor George Nigh and the leadership of both houses of the state legislature supported the measure. Pro-ERA groups ran radio, television and newspaper ads, took polls and organized door-to-door canvassing. The requisite celebrities (Valerie Harper, Marlo Thomas, Phil Donahue, Alan Alda) and politicians (former Vice President Walter Mondale) made appeals...
Jesse Helms is the New Right's righteous warrior, and his battle is nigh...
Although much of his work has focused on the study of birds, Mayr once wrote that "as a lifelong naturalist, I have been interested in the well-nigh inconceivable diversity of the living world, its origin and meaning." Born in Germany and educated at the University of Berlin, he has dedicated his scientific career, in his own words, to "a clarification of evolutionary concepts and processes...