Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time since the band was founded in 1919, the popular tunes "Fight Fiercely Harvard"--written by Thomas A. Lehrer '47--and "Soldier's Field" will hit wax...
...second half of the Times interview dealt with more philosophical questions about the Middle, East and Reagan did a lot better. His train of thought is still hard to follow but he could wax lyrical about the good guys and the bad guys and avoid getting tripped up by the facts...
...South was not just fun and games. The candidates tended to their big-picture strategies too. For Glenn, said his aide Boyd Campbell, Alabama was "the goal-line stand, the whole ball of wax." Mondale predicted he would win unionized Alabama (214,000 AFL-CIO members), where the Mondale family has campaigned in 63 of 67 counties, and was also hoping to finish first in Georgia. In the South, Hart might be satisfied to win only Florida. Jesse Jackson's biggest test had arrived: if he does not do well in Southern states where blacks constitute...
...president since the company was formed agrees that the firm was very risk averse during its early years, but with good reason. "When we first started out in 1973, we had no capital no net worth no funds to speak of. We were sort of held together by wax and tobacco juice," Fox says...
...down on straw place mats. The dining table, preferably butcher block, glass or marble, must never match the dining chairs. Yuppies angle for Queen Anne service as a wedding gift, then use their half of the service for everyday flatware after the divorce. As wedding presents, Yuppies give ski wax, an ounce of saffron or a specially written home-computer program, the Yuppie equivalent of a handmade quilt...