Word: skipped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tells each person to get to know the crystal's personality and to describe it to the group. Some describe their crystals as "little girls who want to dance, skip and play," and others see theirs as "Amazons who are strong and independent...
...show and are negotiating for other companies in Boston, Cleveland, New Orleans and Dallas, while fielding calls of interest from Japan, Britain, Monte Carlo, Israel and Australia. Our music, it seems, was their music; our past is Beehive's bankroll. "If you're between 30 and 45," says Skip Brevis, 30, the show's arranger and musical director, "you can find a spot in this show. Demographically, it's perfect...
...overstated and Secretary of State George Shultz considered the pronouncement premature. While allowing that Poindexter, who holds a Ph.D. in nuclear physics, has a brilliant analytical mind, his critics contend that he is such a poor communicator that he cannot brief the Great Communicator in the big- picture, skip-the-details style that Reagan prefers...
...wears our two heroes down so much that they are sent off on a mandatory vacation to Key West. (How this is possible on a detective's salary I can't tell you.) A week in the sun does wonders for their wan complexions and sex lives, and they skip back to the windy city with the idea that they should give up the disciplinary rat race and buy a bar down in the Keys with some money that Danny has recently come into thanks to a dearly departed aunt. They give their notice and they've got thirty days...
...English professor routinely gives A-minuses to students who do nothing more than attend his class. A history professor allows students to skip midterms, giving A-minuses if final exams are intelligible and B-pluses if they are not. Most professors are unwilling to assign more than two papers--or one paper and a midterm--and a final exam for fear of losing students shopping for courses in an enormous catalogue...