Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...published his tell-all Ball Four in 1970, each succeeding season chronicle has been more graphic than the one before. The first entry in the 1987 baseball biography race came from Lenny Dykstra, a part-time centerfielder for The New York Mets. According to the Harper's index, the word "fuck" appears 160 times in the slim volume. That's a lot of profanity for a player with 127 hits in his career...
Albert L. May, chairman of the Nieman awards committee said that "Zwelakhe Sisulu is an activist and a leader in a struggle. His weapons are ideas and the printed word against an opponent who answers with force...
There is supposedly a new blues revival on now. The full house that came out to see Hooker at the Channel on Friday certainly suggested that somebody'd been spreading the word, bringing in the usual Boston button-down types with a sprinkling of brooding hippies and underage punks. This was the first hard evidence I'd gotten of the blues being revived, aside from reading magazine cover stories on "Great Black Hope" Robert Cray. (Blues has recently developed boxing's problem in reverse: a formerly all-Black domain with no up-and-coming young Black players...
Exceptions to this rule only prove it. For example, every year about this time attractive advertisements begin to circulate offering high wages for what is described as ethical work. The key word to look for in these pamphlets is "fundraising...
...Washington, the only U.S. city that has pandas on permanent exhibit, schoolchildren send them yearly valentines. When the female (also named Ling Ling) fell ill in 1982, she received thousands of get-well cards; some admirers tearfully called for the latest word on her condition. China lent a pair to the Los Angeles Zoo in conjunction with the 1984 Olympics; attendance more than doubled, and pandamaniacs endured three-hour waits. San Francisco's zoo, where the couple went next, saw attendance jump...