Word: rare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...national tragedies. If Johnny can't read, why is he a college president? Perhaps reporters for U.S. News and World Report should have had them point at photographs of prominent colleges instead. A more disturbing thought: Just one day after this newspaper publicized the survey results, $1500 worth of rare jewelry was stolen from the Harvard Semitic Museum. That's just too much of a coincidence...
TASS, the Soviet news agency, showed no such reluctance in publicizing the fate of a Moscow store manager. Yuri Sokolov, former director of the Gastronom No. 1, Moscow's finest food store, was renowned for being able to supply his customers with such rare or rationed delicacies as caviar, smoked sturgeon, coffee and Indian tea. As caterer to the capital's elite, Sokolov lived in high style and had friends close to Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
...with the return of Carrabino, who rode the bench for much of last season with a back injury, Harvard has been able to diversify its offensive game. The 6-ft., 9-in. power forward has the rare ability to use his graceful jumper to make the long connection and also to get deep inside the key for the layups...
...school of New Yorker writers who have succeeded Updike, Cheever, and Salinger. Though Robison writes the occasional Salingeresque sentence ("One morning I was fixing cinammon toast of something and I had to practically he on the counter to keep from going into a complete faint") such puppyish exaggeration is rare. Like Ann Beattie and Frederick Barthelme, she casts a cold and detached eye on her characters, and tends to write spare prose about her spare people. People, what's more, who are distanced from their emotions. We see them the outside, largely through dialogue and physical movements. Even when...
...marks on a platinum-iridium bar kept under controlled conditions near Paris. Still, even this measurement, accurate to one part in a million, was eventually adjudged unsatisfactory. In 1960 the meter was redefined as 1,650,763.73 wave lengths of the reddish-orange light emitted by krypton 86, a rare atmospheric...