Word: proofing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seeing jack o'lanterns hanging from the gargoyles atop the tower of Memorial Hall. "How in God's name did those pumpkins get up there? I've heard tales that one of our mountaineering boys who passed on might have done it, but of course I don't have proof...
MIDNIGHT. Buried Child, Sam Shepard. "There ain't nothing a man can't do," we're told in this Pulitzer Prize winning drama. Infanticide, self-mutilation, heavy-drinking, corn-husking. 190 Proof Halloween horrorpotion. And who couldn't cuddle up to a play whose most quoted line is: "You ain't never seen a bitch eat her puppies?" Hello, my name is Sam Shepard. This is my closet. And these are my skeletons...
...America is no longer in a commanding position in international industry," said Brophy. "The Chinese offered to loft our satellites, and New York City turned to Canada to find grafitti-proof subway cars...
...climbed up the ladder, but it wasn't sturdy enough. (Further proof that it really was put there for quaintness). She pulled branches down to snag the best apples. She picked them off the ground. She tossed them at the two of us who weren't quite as interested in apples as she. But we caught them and added them to the bulging paper sack we had picked up from the owner of the orchard...
...best proof that Reagan does want a summit is that he has been willing to endure scathing criticism from right-wing supporters who wanted him to force a full-scale showdown with Moscow over Daniloff's detention. (The public, however, seems to approve of the President's course. Three-quarters of the people questioned in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll published last week thought Reagan should go to a summit even if Daniloff was still stuck in Moscow; only 18% said he should not.) Reagan badly wants to wind up his presidency in a blaze of glory...