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Word: yount (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Greenery, located on Chapel St., was aptly described by one of our Yale acquaintances as a "fern bar." It resembles a little too closely all those sill over-priced places at Quincy market where the aggressive yount beautiful people hang out and drink Cuervo. The food is expensive and not worth the bother. But if you do make your way into the Greenery this weekend, ask Nelson, the bartender, to make you a "nipple," his own concoction and a drink so good it has been entered in a national bar-tenders& contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Slaking a Connecticut Thirst | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...stiff. After a dispiriting year, he left for the University of New Hampshire at Durham, only ten miles from Exeter. "I felt that I had not got anywhere," he says. In fact, he had come to the right place. The English faculty included a young Southern novelist named John Yount (Wolf at the Door, The Trapper's Last Shot), who told the restless student with the broad shoulders and burning brown eyes what he wanted to hear. "It was so simple," Irving remembers. " Yount was the first person to point out to me that anything I did except writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

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