Word: reverting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...honest woman of Sally. He agonizes over his children. He revels in sweet pain and postures about the divided allegiances that plague him. He also collects locks of Sally's hair. In short, Jerry strikes the reader as a twerp of twerps. At their trysts the two revert to sheer teen-agery, '50s style. They find themselves ravished by love lyrics that come over the radio. They exchange mysterious, monosyllabic endearments. "Hey." "Hi." Jerry gives up smoking. Updike reports: "He wanted his kisses to taste clean." Cupid's darts have all but done them...
...land for the park was sold to the city in the 1920s and 1930s by the estate of former Texas Governor James S. Hogg. There was one proviso: if the land was ever used for other than "park purposes," it would revert to the estate. To sidestep that restriction, the Governor's daughter, Ima Hogg, signed over the estate's drilling rights shortly before her death last year to an old friend, George R. Brown, president of Brownco Inc., a Houston-based drilling company...
...gets canned for cooking some vegetables too early, or some guy who gets to be president of a major University by holding up a can of vegetables, or when some vegetable and his wife defraud Harvard Law School, or, indeed, when a bunch of wilting females decide to revert to prehistory by forming a new finals club, you know the Revolution just isn't getting any closer. It's enough to make a vegetarian cringe. Even the Pusey Library's gone underground...Well, maybe things'll shape up next year--we tend to think they won't--but at least...
...much outrage as would the dissappearance from House dining halls of Cap'n Crunch, but for those of us out here in Alumniland, it's all we have left. We could judge the approach of winter by how far along we were in the alphabet. Now we must revert to the calendar. And we shall be forced, like everyone else, to consult a schedule to find out which game is next--a particularly undesirable development in view of the condition of my own schedule...
...Candidates may run in more than one district. If they win more than one seat, they choose the district they wish to represent; the other seats revert to those next in line on the party ticket...