Word: wide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...important to realize that inherent in any language is its constant subjectability to change. No language, despite the grandest efforts, can resist change over time. Any perusal of texts from a wide variety of time periods will reveal this. No stage of a language is inherently superior to any other, since language naturally adapts to new environments and conditions. If people find it easier to make themselves understood by saying something in a slightly new fashion, such innovation will survive depending on its effectiveness and usefulness. Thus we see the application of the survival of the fittest theory to language...
Flanker John Crowley (21 catches, 318 yards) is the top wide-out, while 6-ft., 6-in., 255-lb. Dimitri Yavis doubles as a tight end and punter. One wonders what the original Minutemen, on the Lexington Green back on April 19, 1775, would have done to the British with size like this...
...there folks, and the Massachusetts Republican party might still not have bottomed out. A big Democratic Presidential win in '88 might do the trick. No Republican in Massachusetts will have any power then, there will be no patronage to dispense from here or from Washington. The field will be wide open for people who love the game of politics because they love to win and think they can govern, not because they have an ideological axe to grind...
...Cambridge and Latin High School JV team is not a typical team. And Fanshen Cox, the squad's third-string wide receiver, is not a typical player...
...Cambridge resident was a cheerleader last year and rooted for her brother Winston, a senior, who played wide receiver for the varsity...