Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...particular voice. But Breathed has been cartooning a widely popular strip for most of this decade, so I'm not inclined to give him the benefit of time. He has shown arrogance in flushing his successful "Bloom County" to begin this "Outland" strip. One naturally expects a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist to show us his best stuff early to quiet his critics...
...well-paid manufacturing jobs that had pulled generations of unskilled workers into the middle class. Many whites, fearing black government, fled to the suburbs, taking their taxable incomes with them. The financial bind worsened under the Reagan Administration's cutbacks in urban aid. "It's like getting the prize and seeing that the prize is hollow," says Linda Williams, policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political Studies in Washington...
Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1987) won every major American prize for nonfiction. Having written well on the most terrible weapon ever used in war, Rhodes evidently has decided to beat his words into plowshares...
...Wildcat pounced on the bouncing prize, and her shot dribbled towards the far corner of the open goal. But Reilly was too quick, swiping the ball out of bounds just before it broke the plane of the goal...
...Council awarded, for the sixth year in a row, the Levenson Prize to recognize excellence in teaching...