Word: raked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand you have Hitler, on the other Albert Schweitzer. Are people in books like this? People in books ought to be human beings. Let us consider human beings in books Consider the men in Tess of the D'Uhervilles, written by a man Alex D'Urbervile, a rake. Angel Clare, a total wimp Dogs Hardy hate men? Consider Dickens, a man, writing about men. Now those are men I would love to have in my living room Consider...
Wilkins, for his part, does not deny his last year's comments. He merely says now that the Overseers work more effectively without publicity behind the scenes. "To rake over the coals and assess blame" would not be productive, Wilkins said last week...
...other good actor. With Lee Remick and some kid with three 6's on his scalp, The Omen did provide Hollywood with some rather ingenious ways of killing priests, photographers and nannies as it depicted the story of the son of Satan and his early years as a young rake...
...male lets out a cry that sounds like a rake being scraped over cement. He flaps his wings-which span 9 ft.-at a bird only another condor could love: an ungainly, 20-lb. female, with lugubrious black feathers, yellow eyes and a bald, orange head. She coyly nibbles at his neck, and off they fly, monogamous partners for life. They will produce a single 4½-in. egg every two years, and their ugly infant will be dependent upon them for a year-or until he is old enough to find carrion for himself...
...1970s, the baby-boom children were "singles," the glamour class of childless sybarites that had responsibilities to no one other than themselves. A decade later, they are dropping anchor. Harvard Demographer George Masnick foresees them aspiring "to put down roots, to plant gardens, to rake the leaves." Already, says he, "young men and women are moving to the country in droves, trying to get away from the singles bars, the single apartment complexes...