Word: standing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most popular authors writing in English. Now that the text has become electronic and easier to revise, future OEDs may lose this 19th century bias. Not too soon, though, it is to be hoped. These handsome new books, containing a trove of information ! waiting to be mined, stand solidly between the past and future. They are an inexhaustible record of what we have written and said and the foundation for what we may yet come to invent...
...there in this great land of ours, the beige-clad ranks of the image- deprived stand in huddled multitudes. They are people who do not realize their hair is too long or their pants are too short, professional people who walk around dressed unwittingly like flight attendants or supermarket managers. Who will tell them their professional image needs help? And how does one begin? Over lunch maybe, with a lame joke? "Hey, I bet this salad knows a thing or two about dressing. Ha! But seriously . . ." It is like telling them they have halitosis...
...stand-up comic. (Think about it: "I just flew from the NCAA headquarters and boy, are my arms tired...
...Israelis, now in control of the West Bank, may not have behaved with their customary prudence and respect for human rights. But to hold the Israeli army completely responsible for Palestinian disenfranchisement does an enormous disservice not only to the Israelis, but to the Palestinians, who stand little chance of international support if Israel does relinquish control...
...hope that despite the new trend in trash television, we will always have Kermit, Grover, Ernie, Bert and Big Bird. Besides, Morton Downey doesn't like pigeons, and Robin Leach can't stand cookies...