Word: upper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bowsher had been blocked, knocked and toppled--and had still managed to unleash a blast into the upper reaches of the net from just outside...
Since Monday, Lanam says, temperatures in Lamont's upper levels have reached highs of 78 degrees, due to a malfunction in the library's 40-year-old secondary heating system. Students have been sweltering in greenhouse-style heat as moisture collects on the insides of windows...
...this sad biography shows, the perks were lavish but the emotional cost prohibitive. Joan, an upper-middle-class girl from the suburb of Bronxville, N.Y., paid for her real and imagined humiliations by becoming an alcoholic. Much of her story, as told by former Administrative Assistant Marcia Chellis, deals with victory over the bottle. There are references to the Senator's compulsive rovings, Joan's search for a more attentive man ("I need a man in my life and I don't just mean 'safe' men"), notes on the contents of her refrigerator ("frozen lobster newburgh, creamed chicken, diet root...
There is good reason why morale is high: at the moment, the Sandinista army seems to have the upper hand in its four-year-old war against the U.S.-backed opposition forces known as the contras. "When we are attacked, we have to respond with fire," declares Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra (see box). The main insurgent group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), declared earlier this year that it had infiltrated 14,000 of its guerrillas into Nicaragua from Honduras and positioned an additional 3,000 along the border. Last week the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry charged that the border forces...
Cleopatra, who must have spent hours rimming her eyes with kohl each morning, would no doubt have loved the latest gift of cosmetic surgery: tattooing a thin dark line along the upper and lower lids to augment or replace conventional eyeliner. Since the operation was introduced in the U.S. a year ago, about 15,000 of her modern-day sisters have scurried off to ophthalmologists, dermatologists and plastic surgeons in unblinking pursuit of a fuss-free made-up look. The operation appeals especially to athletic women who do not want to worry about runny eyeliner and to those with poor...