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Word: postcarded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...

Author: By A Grader and Best Wishes, S | Title: A Graders Reply | 1/9/1985 | See Source »

...here? Apparently not; he goes on to muse about middle age ("On the whole we are all quite game. It's life itself that seems to be wanting"), about his comical doorman, about whether to crank up an old affair with a woman who has sent him a postcard, about the arresting fact that the Manhattan Yellow Pages are available in Spanish. No, he decides, he can no longer write; the whole thing is hopeless. The novella peters out as messily as could be wished, without even a period to nail down its last sentence: "... maybe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Books | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

Even with such compelling cases and the case of simply an already printed said many students still read by saving that such efforts are inconsequential. Fortunately this is not always true Last year for example, one month after HRAI postcard drive. Tariq Ashan, a Pakistani student arrested for lending his motor bike to a friend who used it to distribute an underground newspaper, was set free In fact, 47 percent of the case that Amnesty International handles improve while, only 5 percent deteriorate...

Author: By David W. Bliss, | Title: Doing Right, Right | 12/12/1984 | See Source »

...presence of some 600 American students had provided the rationale for the Oct. 25 invasion, preparations were under way for the unveiling this week of a bronze plaque honoring the U.S. troops who died in the three-day invasion battle. Throughout St. George's, the island's postcard-charming capital, most shops and offices were closed for the occasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grenada: Waiting in Paradise | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...worker--who said his name was Bob--came back a few minutes later, asking her to sign again, inside, right next to a postcard-sized closeup of her genitals...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Penthouse Pet Visits Harvard Square | 10/2/1984 | See Source »

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