Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assistant judges, established by Vermont's 18th century constitution, are a remnant of the hostility toward lawyers that many of the original colonists brought with them from England. That mistrust persists to this day. Vermonters are fond of pointing out to strangers that in the Green Mountain State's peculiar twang, the word lawyer comes out sounding like "liar...
Smith is 32, the second oldest of the still youthful Islanders, a last remnant of the expansion draft that stocked the franchise eleven years ago. He can recall mean times and does so nostalgically. "One problem with playing on a winner," sighs Smith, "is you can't go out and just hammer somebody. It might cost you the game." Nevertheless, he went out and just hammered Gretzky in Game 2, which the Islanders won 6-3. There followed a bit of spearing and slashing, a good deal of cursing and crying, and two more New York victories...
...shortly after he had entered the University of Melbourne. Pisar discovered that he had tuberculosis. Ironically, this and another remnant of his war years catalyzed his metamorphosis and shifted the direction of his future life: "During the war and after I had acquired my languages trying to survive--English. German, Russian, French, Yiddish and a few other languages Immobilized and put on my back. I began to read and systematically swallowed literature after literature. "Then I recovered, and by then of course. I had become a very thoughtful...
...Raskin had ruled out running early in the week, but he left the door open a crack at Wednesday night's session. When nominated by a fellow delegate, he said, "I decline for now." The other scenario has the chairmanship going to a Freeman, a Sabutino or another unimaginative remnant of a decidedly anglorious past. In that case, the only thing they'll be passing In Science Center B on Sunday evenings will be fistfuls...
...Malcolm Freeman, a sex therapist and professor of gynecology at Emory University in Atlanta, disagrees: "It's very clear that the spot exists. Some women have a small tissue buildup, a remnant of prostate vestige." He adds that the authors' additional claim-that a stimulated G spot may secrete a fluid-should serve to alleviate the anxiety of women who notice unexpected secretions during orgasm. "In the years before I was aware of the G spot," he says, "I saw about one patient a year who came to me very anxious because she seemed to be urinating during...