Word: spent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hundreds of bonfires fueled by cardboard, trash or debris provided the only heat for people who had spent the last four nights on the streets, and sent a pall of smoke over the city of 250,000 people...
...little boy,/ He lived in his skin;/ When he pops out,/ You may pop in" and George Bernard Shaw's effort for the young, presented at age 93: "Dumpitydoodledum big bow wow/ Dumpitydoodledum dandy!" Not exactly Dr. Seuss, but, as young people know, many a satisfying afternoon can be spent with leftovers...
Geffen started his own label, Asylum, in 1970 and became the leading purveyor of the California Sound. Among his artists: Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne. After selling Asylum to Warner Bros. in 1972 and running it for three years, Geffen spent an unsatisfying year as vice chairman of Warner's movie division. "I had to deal with bureaucracy and politics. It just didn't work," he explains...
Restricting the definition of intelligence has become a detrimental factor in our political culture, with the treatment of Vice President-elect Dan Quayle as the most obvious example. During the campaign, Quayle was mocked for having spent too much time golfing and drinking beer, rather than attending classes and studying during his days at DePauw University. A minor scandal ensued when he refused to release his college transcript...
...taxi driver (One of the more infamous episodes in this scandal occurred when former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane went on a secret mission to Iran, bringing with him a cake and a bible for the Ayatollah. The question in Iran was, who ate the cake? The Holy Court spent days trying to determine the culprit--following what the Tehran newspapers gleefully called "The Trail of Crumbs"--until the investigations led to Akeem, the person who drove McFarlane to the airport...