Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dismal showing of lieutenant governor Thomas P. O'Neill ill in his attempt to shed the first half of his title, could fatally cripple his candidacy. Even veteran observers were shocked by the magnitude of the walloping administered to O'Neill by former governor Michael s. Dukakis and Gov. Edward J. king. Though acknowledging before the caucuses that Dukakis would probably pull in a large majority, O'Neill's camp hoped for a respectable share, perhaps even to best king, who all along had belittle the caucuses and had never officially organized for then. But, by all accounts save...
...only seen in books." It's an odd expression for someone who might be expected to be worldly. "He's curious, full of wonderment," says his wife, "not at all worldly." It delights him to have installed the sprinkler system in the horses' shed himself and to have managed a good deal of the carpentry. Life is good...
...city-based group, the Angels have lately begun to set up chapters in the suburbs. In bedroom communities around Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, for example, their mission is to deter house break-ins and assaults in shopping malls. In the process of expanding, the Angels are trying to shed their image as a squad of reformed ghetto toughs. In the Midwest and West, many volunteers are middle-class whites. Says Sliwa: "In Los Angeles I was astounded to see blond-haired, blue-eyed boys drive up in cars with surfboards, park and go out on patrol...
Behind the wat is a shack where the coffins are kept before cremation; and behind that, near a patch of sweet potatoes, the crematorium sits in a clearing under a shed, like a doll's chapel. There is no activity there today. But the wat itself is busy with a festival marking the last day of the Buddhist Lent. A monk in yellow sits cross-legged on a table, while children crouched in a circle burn incense. The smoke is supposed to fly to heaven in order to beckon their ancestors to descend and join them...
...Shed a manly tear, sound a mournful bugle call, maybe even fire off a several-gun salute for good old Bunker Hill Military Academy. For a century and a half it has been turning out cadets who have exemplified duty, honor, country, that sort of thing. Now, however, times having changed, those qualities are regarded as antiques, and the trustees have voted to shut the place down and sell it to condominium developers...