Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farther to the left. Spewing balls of fire into the air, it tore through four blocks of Kenner and exploded into bits of charred metal. Thirteen houses were leveled. The plane's nose smashed into one house, skidded through a vacant lot, caromed through two more blocks. The tail with its Pan Am insignia plowed to a stop in someone's yard; it was the only section of the plane still intact...
...about why 1980 turned out as it did. In the end, however, he refuses to say whether the election marks "twilight or dawn, an era ending or an era beginning. "He suggests that the ultimate significance of 1980 remains in the hands of Ronald Reagan and his Republican coat tail-riders, who can now either cement their tenuous 1980 coalition or embark on another "wrong turning" that could, as in the 1960s, "bring us to convulsion in the streets. "This is perhaps the one unfortunate thing about America in Search of Itself. More than any of the previous Making...
...Daybell, a student at Trinity College with a name that could have appeared in Finnegans Wake, calls his work "bloody rubbish. It's just dressing the whole thing up. I tried reading A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man but couldn't make head or tail of it." A denizen of one of Dublin's ubiquitous pubs shrugs at the mention of Joyce's name: "Jaysus, I can't even back a horse, never mind read his books...
...class by itself. It is the largest in history: 945,000 bachelor's degrees, 303,000 master's degrees, 33,300 doctorates and an all-time high of 73,600 first professional degrees. Most of its graduates were born around 1960, at the tail end of the baby boom and the height of national prosperity, and will turn 40 around the year 2000. This class, almost evenly divided between male and female graduates, has great demographic diversity, with many older students and minorities...
...would have proved, had diplomacy worked. But that prolonged stretch of time also allowed a grand illusion to grow in the public mind-the idea that this war was going to be a cultural event, with the participating nations displaying the ceremonies of battle the way some birds display tail feathers, as rituals of violence minus the blood. For the spectators there was more than enough to be amused by, including the Falklands themselves, unknown to the world before April 2 and afterward an anthology of jokes about penguins, sheep and kelp. Those not giggling were celebrating. Argentine children waved...