Word: section
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subhead on an article in section A of The New York Times about the controversy, for example trumpeted "Rejection From Leader Who Vows Diversity...
...took the dreaded English A anticipatory Exam and I flunked it, a dubious start for a would-be writer. But it was a well-disguised blessing, and the strict standards of my English A section man (his face remains, his name is gone) imposed a discipline on my thought as well as my prose that I realized was overdue...
...encouragement of that English A section man, and later from Kenneth Payson Kempton in his short story class and Carvel Collins, who gave a wonderful composition course and who steered my to my encounter with Life magazine and thus set my whole professional life in motion, I could hope to make my way as a writer, despite my dismal performance on the Anticipatory Exam...
...author is the doyenne of American home cooking, and the best parts of her book are little sideline essays about the byways of food, such as planking shad, making piccalilli, a section on fresh-fruit desserts (including a silken strawberry ice) and the ineffable glory of peaches (part of the rose family, she reports). Lukins writes with the unforced authority of her affection for the U.S., which she crisscrossed 50 times to gather the 600 recipes here. United Airlines has just gone American and is serving 36,000 dishes a day from U.S.A. Cookbook. As porch reading...
...RADEK, 54 A founding member of Justice's public-integrity section in the aftermath of Watergate, Radek supervises Ingersoll's team. An even-tempered, down-to-earth Chicago native, he is known for his street savvy, lawyerly acumen and good judgment. After suffering a heart attack in the early 1990s, he has slimmed down and forsaken the cheap cigars whose stench once pervaded the office. He is passionate about golf (but has little time to play), and his Elvis impersonations for the public-integrity support staff at Christmas are legendary...