Word: wee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Examples: unfairly called out at third base during a high school baseball game, he handed the umpire the appurtenance, saying, "Here, you could use another eye"; at a girl friend's house a few years later, he put the eye under his pillow, only to wake in the wee hours to the sound of crunching glass-the girl's dog had found...
Network censors, like almost everyone else, are a little less upright in the wee hours; thus Tomorrow plans to focus on controversial subjects and straight, even abrasive talk. "The Tonight audience wants to be entertained," claims Tomorrow's Producer Rudy Tellez. "But at 1 a.m. you have a different kind of audience, one that wants to be informed, that wants to know what's happening." Perhaps. Maybe some people simply want to get to sleep...
...neighborhood, there wasn't such a thing as Pee Wee or Pop Warner football for little tykes, so we played tackle, without any semblance of equipment, in the back yard of a house owned by this old man down the street...
That is reputed to be only a wee bit above the highest bid-all of which has led some bankers to suspect that the government favored the public offering all along, and went through the motions of conducting an auction only to demonstrate that it was getting the highest possible price. The stock offering, which will enable Rolls-Royce to continue as an independent company, is highly popular with the British public; some 200 London investment groups have lined up for a piece of the stock. Creditors of the old Rolls-Royce Ltd., which went bust...
Eleven law professors and one law clerk, from nine states wee awarded the first Harvard Fellowships in Law and Humanities this week. The fellows will spend the next academic year studying how to include concepts of the humanities into the teaching...