Word: peg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lajitas Trading Post is the best-stocked store for miles around, and also a kind of social peg tethering the two sides of the frontier. Evening soirees are held three or four times a year. "People on the other side come from 25 miles away over a rough road to a dance like this," says Bill Ivey, 32, who runs the store. Ivey grew up behind the trading post, where his father was the storekeeper. At the time, he recalls, Lajitas had an official population of just seven, four of whom were Iveys. Now a Houston company has developed...
According to Grant, onlookers "peg an elitisttitle on us. Unfortunately you have to have thesepledging rituals to create the bond. It's a veryunique experience. To say we're separatist reallydoesn't fit because we're concerned with theUniversity," he said...
...lefty-hitting centerfielder was up again the next inning with the bases loaded. This time, Crowley went the opposite field with a liner that streaked past leftfielder Peg Cokowoski. Crowley wound up at third base with three more RBIs in her pocket. She scored Harvard's 10th run on an error by Culbertson...
...have trouble telling most of the candidates apart, it is sometimes more effective to define a candidate by tearing a rival down. With Dole and Bush, their very familiarity may breed not contempt but indifference. What better way to distinguish oneself than to take the other fellow down a peg or two? In the end, any real debate can get lost in the static...
...partners' next move will be good news for women who would like to wear Lacroix but not pay his couture prices (for evening wear: typically $8,000 to $18,000). In March they will plunge into off-the-peg. The first collection of about 100 pieces, including some in leather and knits, will be sold in only 110 stores worldwide (price range: $300 to $8,000). Says Lacroix: "There will be no flowers, no ruffles, no bustles, but color, proportion, good...