Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What about volume? "I don't think they know the meaning of the word 'sieve'," Kaufman answers...
There are several ways to produce charts and graphs on personal computers and most require additional software beyond the basic word-processing package. Often, graphing programs are more than simple line-drawers and circle dividers--they allow the user to manipulate that data before the graphs are even produced...
...TABLE discussions about the usual garbage--hockey games; the NCAA playoffs; who's better, the Mets or the Yankees; who has the most work coming up; where everybody is going for spring break, etc.--some friends and I had nothing left to talk about except the use of the word hopefully...
...wanting to be considered a traditionalist, nor to be characterized as having bugbears, I decided that I would resolve the conflict myself. Besides, I didn't feel like waiting for William Safire to come out with the last word on it. Herewith, an amateur's guidelines for using hopefully...
...personified by the book's two main characters, one an ineffectual police chief named Fred Clumly, the other a crazed magician who calls himself The Sunlight Man. They are brought together in a small community in upstate New York after the Sunlight Man is arrested for painting the word "LOVE" in large letters across and entrance to the New York State Thruway. With the aid of his conjuring tricks, The Sunlight Man breaks out of jail and begins to conduct a series of dialogue with Clumly, who is trying haplessly to apprehend...