Word: worded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
Flawlessly attired in a black Chanel suit, Frances Lear gazes for a moment out her office window at the Madison Avenue traffic below. Then, whippet-like, she whirls to confront the semicircle of editors at her morning story conference. "What's the word we want?" she asks. Through owlish goggles she scrutinizes their faces, as if seeing them for the first time. Before anyone can answer, she darts to her chair and provocatively settles her slender black-stockinged legs on a cluttered coffee table. She sits stiffly, ladylike. Her expressive hands, with their buffed, not polished nails, beat...
...that era of priceless memories when small boys leaned out over dugout railings and haunted stadium gates. A number of contemporary players, like the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser and Don Mattingly of the Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances up," Mattingly says. "It's depressing." However, many of the modern stars -- Jose Canseco ($15), Roger Clemens ($9) and Will Clark ($8) among them -- seem to see the same lobby kids at every hotel, and have come to look at all children as Fagin...
...lower-court victory by the Murphy Door Bed Co. of Amityville, N.Y. The firm claimed that a former Murphy distributor had illegally called his product the "original" Murphy bed. The appeals court ordered the distributor to pay damages for competing unfairly and violating an agreement to stop using the word original. But the judges held that the term Murphy bed can be used by any manufacturer...
Yasser Arafat speaks passable English but hardly a syllable of French. So it was no slip of the tongue when the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization chose to use a French word during a live interview on France's TF1 television channel. At one point, Arafat declared as caduque -- a legal term meaning null and void -- the controversial 1964 P.L.O. charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel...