Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classic textbook game," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney Smith said afterwards. "One team pumped up sky high with nothing to lose and the other team with everything to lose. We were definitely ready and pumped up too, but we were nervous...
...Toad ever put pen to paper, it was reluctantly, to scribble in the margin of a college textbook ("Hmmmmm" or "Sez who?" or "Ha!"), or to write a check. Over the years, Toad's handwriting atrophied, until it was almost illegible. Who cared? Sonatas of language, symphonies, flowed from the Smith-Corona...
Most of the pre-freshmen, coming from all parts of the country, visit Cambridge to compare what they think the school will be like with what it actually is. Some high school students had only seen Harvard through glossy pamphlets or textbook descriptions...
Savimbi's career is no textbook example of anti-Communism. In his fight against the Portuguese colonial rule that ended in Angola in 1975, Savimbi traveled to China to study revolutionary tactics. In those days, he talked of turning Angola into a Maoist agricultural commune, stating, "You can't apply capitalism to Africa...
...mixing up a tasty bit of rock and roll, Philistines is an easy listening pop album with neither the crunch of "rock" nor the snap of "roll." In short, this is rock music for people drink decaffinated coffee, exercise regularly and watch out for too much salt in their textbook guided diets...